Belize City woman is latest lotto winner
She says she has been an on and off lotto player for the last three years. But on Saturday night, fifty-three year old Sylvia Swift finally hit the jackpot. And while she couldn?t believe it when she heard that her numbers had won, she was prompt at the lotto office this afternoon to claim her ninety-five thousand dollar prize. Swift told News 5 that for now, the money will sit safe and sound in her bank account until she figures out how to spend it.
Sylvia Swift, $95,000 Jackpot winner
?I tell my little girl Stacey to check the hotline to see what number play in the lotto and when she check it about six o?clock the evening, she said, ?mommy ought two, sixteen, eighteen, twenty-eight, and thirty-three.? I tell her Stacey girl I have the lotto and she said no you di joke. I tell her yes girl I have the numbers and I told her to check it again and we checked it three times. Then they start to jump up and feel happy and I said yes–go wake your daddy and make him know that we win the lotto.”
“When I was in the States I won four numbers and since I come back, I buy off and on and I add anyone I desire to put there. So, that Saturday we decided to put eighteen and that?s how come we got the number.?
Patrick Jones
?Ninety thousand dollars; that?s a lot of money. Are you just going to leave that in the bank like that??
Sylvia Swift, $95,000 Jackpot winner
?Well, until I decide what to do because right now I don?t have nothing to spend it on.?
After income tax deductions, Swift takes home eighty thousand, seven hundred and fifty dollars. The lotto jackpot reverts to fifty grand for Wednesday?s draw.
