Belize Mennonites: News

   A vehicle was stolen in Spanish Lookout today morning. The police managed to apprehend one or two of the suspects later in the village of Santa Familia. (Correction: the vehicle was stolen in Burrell Boom but the chase continued through Spanish Lookout with local constables assisting the national police.)

      There was an airplane accident in Blue Creek, northern Belize. A yellow crop duster crashed onto a crop field but the pilot was fine.

     Earlier this week, a house in northern Spanish Lookout caught fire. The residents were all safe but the house was destroyed.

     On Tuesday morning, July 7, a horrifying airplane accident was caught on camera over southern Spanish Lookout. Veteran pilot Henry Plett was carrying out a routine task of spraying fertilizer over a cornfield beside the river when his plane suddenly nosedived and crashed to the ground in an open pasture. He did not survive.

     On Thursday the 11th of June, torrential rains caused flooding in southern Belize. Among the affected who had to be rescued were members of Mountain Valley, a small recently established colony of Noah Hoover Mennonites. Fortunately no lives were lost.

     Johan Harder, a resident of Neuland currently employed in Spanish Lookout, was shot last weekend in Unitedville. According to sources, it did not appear that he was the intended target. Unfortunately he was hit and was rushed to the hospital where he suffered what many Belizeans are forced to endure: 12 to 24 hours of agony due to a shortage of doctors over the weekend. With no skilled medics around to extract the bullet lodged in his body he was rushed to Guatemala. No more updates have been received since then.

  Isaac Fehr, a Mennonite doctor and owner of Tonic Life in Shipyard, Belize, has made a significant contribution to the Belize Defense Forces by donating an ambulance and other medical equipment. The donation was formally acknowledged by the government at the Price Barracks in Ladyville on May 25th.