Mother of eight wins weekend lotto

We hope the people at the Lotto office like signing those big cheques because they’ve been doing that a lot. Today, they wrote a cheque to Dorla Foreman of Belize City for fifty-seven thousand, five hundred dollars after she picked the lucky numbers in Saturday’s Lotto Draw. This afternoon, the excited mother of eight told News 5 that she was at home when she heard the good news.

Dorla Foreman, Lotto Winner

“Saturday night when I was going to the fair with my kids I was in the bathroom when I heard the numbers. I get excited and said I won the jackpot. It’s the first time I buy the two numbers.”

Jacqueline Woods

“How long have you been playing lotto?”

Dorla Foreman

“About six years, from it begin. From lotto begin to play I was playing.”

Jacqueline Woods

“You plan to do anything special with the prize money?”

Dorla Foreman

“I home, a dream home. I have eight kids.”

After government’s fifteen percent tax, Foreman takes home forty-eight thousand, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars. The lucky numbers drawn on Saturday are 13-19-21-27-33 and the free ticket letter is K. On the twenty-third of May, Tropical Gaming paid out one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, their largest Lotto jackpot since they set up shop in Belize.