Mega Bingo Winner Takes Home 170,000 Just Before Christmas  

A twenty-year-old student from Independence just hit the jackpot, winning a whopping one hundred and seventy thousand dollars in the Mega Bingo! Earlier today, he made the trip to Belize City with his mom and younger sibling to claim his prize. News Five caught up with him to chat about his incredible win.

 

Voice of: Mega Bingo Winner

“Actually, I found out the following morning.  I didn’t play the game the night of the actual game, so the following morning [was when] I played, but with this game we usually play as a family.  It’s like a three-person family, me, my mother and my brother to play this and every Wednesday I buy two tickets for each of us, but that night all of us were busy.  So, we didn’t play until the following morning. My brother wasn’t at home and my mother was busy so I played all six tickets by myself.  So when I found out, when I played the recording again the following morning, I thought I did the mistake of maybe circling a wrong number so I checked it a second time, I ran to my mother and let her confirm it as well. So we checked the tickets three times but we still couldn’t believe it. Nut we had to come here  and we finally get confirmation that I won when we scanned the ticket here.”

 

Isani Cayetano

“What’s the feeling like for you and your family?”

 

Voice of: Mega Bingo Winner

“I mean, it’s it’s really, really good. It’s like right now we’re really in a tough situation as well. So, I really appreciate that I had this luck. God gave me this love and I’m really grateful for it.”

 

Reporter

“Where’d you get your ticket?”

 

Voice of: Mega Bingo Winner

“At an Independent, at Hugh Hong store. Yeah. Huong Hong.”

 

Isani Cayetano

“It’s Christmas time, right? How is it going to look for you and your family this year?”

 

Voice of: Mega Bingo Winner

“It looked like basically for the next year is a good start of the year to say, as we come to the end of this year. And as, together with Christmas, I’m also graduating this December as well. So it’s both a Christmas gift, a New Year’s gift, and a graduation gift. And with that, I’m looking forward to pursuing my education with this  money.”