Board officials to identify students who caused some $2,000 damage to a bus last week.

CedarBridge principal Ernest Payette said the students would be dealt with once they had been identified.

A group of "unruly'' students last Friday at Bailey's Bay in Hamilton Parish threw a bottle at a bus, smashing the back window.

Sources said the bottle was thrown after students on the bus threw something out of the bus window at them. But Police, at the time of the incident, said students were not able to identify the bottle throwers. The incident is still being probed by Police and PTB officials. PTB director Herman Basden stressed that whoever was responsible should be made to formally apologise and pay for the damage.

"They should feel the brunt of the frustration of the general public about their behaviour,'' Mr. Basden told The Royal Gazette last week.

"They should also have to bring their parent with a cheque book and start paying so much per month. That will force the parents to talk to their children about such behaviour.'' Education Minister Jerome Dill also condemned the incident and promised to look into it. "This issue is serious,'' he said. "When you get missiles being thrown at a bus in which there are school children, the individual, whoever they may be, should be dealt with severely. Because what they have done has endangered the lives of people on that bus.'' TRANSPORTION TRA EDUCATION ED