Mennonite woman commits suicide

Since their arrival in Belize in the fifties, the Mennonites have over the years kept a low profile. But in the last couple of months, they’ve exploded onto the news scene in dramatic fashion, being implicated in everything from drug busts to phony gun licenses. Today’s news, however, is more tragic. Orange Walk police say a forty nine year old housewife from Camp thirteen in Shipyard, committed suicide on Tuesday afternoon. They body of Margarette Thiessen was found by her husband hanging from a rope attached to a beam in the couple’s bathroom around two o’clock Tuesday afternoon. Although an investigation of the incident is still ongoing, police say relatives report that Margarette and her husband were having marital problems.