How’s this for a bit of the history of gambling in Jamaica. On March 20, 1944, Phillip Wong of a Duke Street address in Kingston, pleaded guilty in court to a breach of the Gambling Law (namely – selling peaka pow tickets). He was fined £20 or three months in prison. Wong was arrested during a raid that was led by an “Inspector Lindop” at premises on nearby Orange Street on February 24, 1944.

Source: Gleaner Archives (This Day In Our Past)