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She Won The Biggest Jackpot, Like Ever!
posted (June 14, 2011)
Mega Bingo today handed over the largest jackpot in Belize's history - that's 219 thousand dollars. The winner is a single, unemployed mother of four who was just about to contend with a battery of registration fees for her children who are between 8 and 15 years old.

At a ceremony this afternoon at 48 Baymen Avenue she told us, she bought her ticket a week ago and went into the main office yesterday to check it out, not expecting that she'd won the biggest jackpot ever:..

Lilia Alvarez, winner
"Not having any idea that I had the winning ticket for the big one. so when I gave the tickets to the girl there they gave me the good news. I couldn't believe it. It took me a little while to assimilate the news and I was like shock. I call my kids and I told them about the good news because they have been seeing me buying Mega Bingo from since it started and I keep telling them to pray to God and cross your fingers that maybe someday we will get the big one. First of all I have 4 children going to school. My oldest son will be entering 2nd form - so you know that's quite an expense there and I'll put away some of that for my kids' education and or the future also and to earn interest in the bank. I also plan to build a house and most of all pay all the bills that have been accumulating from so long. I am unemployed, I have been looking for a job for quite a while now, I have only been living with the maintenance money that I receive for my kids, so it's been kind of hard for me. This is like a blessing from God."

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