The search is over for the driver of the Hiace bus that struck and killed a seven-year-old boy along the Mandela Highway in St Catherine last Tuesday.

Winston Taylor was handed over to the Central Village police about 2 p.m. yesterday and was charged with manslaughter, not stopping after an accident and failing to report an accident.

The Central Village police said that on September 15, Dennis Brown was on his way home from school when, while crossing the road near the entrance of Caymanas Bay, he was hit by the Hiace minibus driven by Taylor.

The bus did not stop but was later taken to the Portmore Police Station and parked.

- Rasbert Turner

OUR still undecided about salaries billing

The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) is yet to decide if it will allow the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) to dip into the pockets of its customers to recover $2.3 billion it paid to its workers based on a reclassification exercise.

However, the OUR has hinted that it is unlikely to grant the company's request.

"We have not issued the decision yet but trust me, trust me, the OUR has a lot of common sense," Maurice Charvis, deputy director general of the regulatory body, told journalists yesterday.

In its rate-increase application, the JPS had asked the OUR to allow it to recover costs over which it had no control, including the money for the reclassification.