Resort employee is latest Lotto winner

He’s been serving the rich and famous at Cayo Espanto for years, but tonight Ernesto Azueta is, at least by Belizean standards, rich and famous in his own right. On Wednesday, Azueta won the seventy-seven thousand five hundred dollar Lotto jackpot. The thirty-two year old stopped by Tropical Gaming this morning to pick up his cheque.

Ernesto Azueta, Wednesday?s Lotto Winner
?Those numbers were picked using the process of my birth, my daughter birthday and also my wife and the age I had, thirty-two years going to thirty-three … and that?s how I got it.?

Janelle Chanona
?How did you feel when you realised you had won??

Ernesto Azueta
?Very happy and was unable to sleep that night. That?s how I was feeling.?

Janelle Chanona
?So you were telling me that you come from Cayo but you live in San Pedro. Where you gonna use the money??

Ernesto Azueta
?Well, I?m gonna use the money to build my house in Cayo and the rest is gonna be at the bank.?

Azueta’s lucky numbers were 12-2-8-33-32. After government’s fifteen percent tax bite, he takes home sixty-five thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven dollars and ten cents.