The official Government and Legal notices for in the present day [December 29] embody contracts, performing appointments, notification of planning functions registered, and part 199A discover to collectors and contributories.
PATI Info Assertion – Bermuda Housing Company
- Discover sort: Authorities Discover
- Discover sub sort: PATI Contracts valued $50,000 or extra
- Discover ID: GN1175/2025
- Public Authorities / Division: Public Entry to Info [PATI]
- Publication date: 29 December, 2025
Authorities Of Bermuda
Ministry Of Public Works
PATI Info Assertion
Title of Public Authority: Bermuda Housing Company
Introduction:
The Public Entry to Info Act 2010 [PATI] laws was designed to make central Authorities, and the bigger public sector, extra open and accountable by giving the general public the legally enforceable proper to request and entry data topic to restricted and prescribed exemptions.
The Bermuda Housing Company [BHC] outlines its mandate and legislative authority to offer reasonably priced and high quality housing and to advertise house possession to all Bermudians. The general public will have the ability to establish the Minister for Public Works and the BHC Board because the governing authority of the Company. The
Info Assertion outlines the roles and obligations of the assorted departments inside the
Company and the requisite providers that they supply. The Assertion identifies the sources and property of the Company and the allocation of these sources and property to the extent that it doesn’t breach confidentiality and safety clauses of this laws. The Assertion offers most of the people with an outline of the continued Capital improvement initiatives and the assertion helps the BHC’s mandate.
Lessons Of Info Not Usually Included
Whereas BHC is dedicated to disclosing data in compliance with the Public Entry To Info [PATI] Act, there are compelling causes to guard sure forms of data. The next classes of data/paperwork is not going to be accessible. The potential hurt attributable to their disclosure outweighs the profit to be derived from accessibility Worker Personnel data
Tenant Monetary data
Tenant’s private and social reviews thought-about to be confidential.
Court docket Issues
Contact Info
Bodily Deal with:
Bermuda Housing Company Seven Arches Constructing East #44 Church Road
Hamilton, HM 12 Bermuda
MAILING ADDRESS:
Bermuda Housing Company
PO Field HM 662
Hamilton HM CX Bermuda
Hours Of Operation:
Monday — Friday, 8:30 am — 4:45 pm
Phone quantity: [441]-295-8623
Fax quantity: [441]-295-2605
Web site: www.bhc.bm
To Get hold of Information From The Bermuda Housing Company, You Could Direct Your Request To:
Chief of Human Providers
Bermuda Housing Company
Tel: [441] 295-8623 ext. 221
Fax: [441] 295-2605
Electronic mail: joys@bhc.bm
Laws
BHC is topic to the next laws which mandates the features and actions of the group:
Bermuda Housing Act 1980
Bermuda Housing Act Modification 2006
Part B: I] Features, powers, duties of the Authority [s5[1] bl
Providers Offered By The Company
BHC offers a wide range of providers to make sure that its mandate and mission is fulfilled. As well as, it offers the peace of mind, by its providers, that tenants will obtain the mandatory help to develop life expertise that may help them in reaching rental stability and/or the pursuit of homeownership alternatives. BHC offers landlord providers to BHC owned items, Personal Sector Rental Items, Leased properties, and Transitional Rooming Homes.
Carried out in 2007, BHC manages and operates the “Serving to the Unemployed Maintain Themselves by Restricted Employment” often known as the H.US.T.L.E. Programme which has assisted over 500 unemployed individuals with time restricted employment.
BHC additionally works in partnership with personal builders within the improvement of latest housing initiatives.
Governance
BHC’s determination making physique is its Board of Administrators. “The governing physique of the Company shall be a board of administrators [hereinafter referred to as the Board] consisting of a Chairman and Vice-Chairman appointed by the Minister, the three ex-officio members set out within the First Schedule and never lower than seven or greater than eleven additional members appointed by the Minister, who along with the Chairman and Vice-Chairman are hereinafter known as the appointed members.”[i]
The Board delegates a few of its choices to Sub Committees, and or to the BHC Administration group. The Sub Committees of the Board are: –
Bermudiana Seaside Resort & Finance, Property Improvement, Help Providers and Human Sources.
Mission Assertion
The Bermuda Housing Company’s [BHC] Mission Assertion is:
“To offer accessibility to satisfactory, reasonably priced housing and promote impartial dwelling to boost the standard of life in Bermuda”
The Imaginative and prescient Assertion of the Bermuda Housing Company is:
“Each Bermudian will reside in an satisfactory and protected atmosphere”
Part B: 2] Obligations below PATI Act
To offer an data assertion for the general public and promulgate it [s5],
To offer different data to the general public in order that the general public wants solely to have minimal resort to the usage of the Act to acquire data [s6]. This contains:
Normal data, e.g. actions of the Authority
Log of all data requests and their consequence Quarterly expenditure [upon request] [s6[5]] Contracts valued at $50,000 or extra.
To answer data requests in a well timed method [s 12-16]
To trace data requests, and supply this information to the Info Commissioner To answer requests from the Info Commissioner [s9] To amend private data held by the Authority that it’s unsuitable or deceptive following a written request by the particular person to whom the knowledge relates [s 1 9] To conduct an inside overview if formally requested [part 5]
To offer proof for overview by the Info Commissioner [part 6, 47[4]], or for judicial overview [s49], if required
To offer an annual written report back to the Info Commissioner of the standing of data requests [s58 [3]].
To do anything as required below the PATI Act and subsequent Laws [s59, 60], together with:
Charges for Requests for data
Administration and upkeep of data
Procedures for administering the Act
To coach employees and make preparations in order to facilitate compliance with the Act [s6 1 ]
To designate one in every of its officers to be the particular person to whom requests are directed [s62]
Part C: Providers and Programmes [s5[1] cl
Providers:
Finance Division:
The Finance Division is accountable for guaranteeing that correct accounting data are maintained. It units out tips and enforces insurance policies and procedures referring to monetary management and financial prudence on the Company. Vital coverage paperwork embody the Expenditure Authorization doc that particulars the method for procuring contracts and the necessities for administering Buy orders to opening Sealed Tender paperwork. The Finance group is tasked with managing the RGI arrange and making use of recharge upkeep bills to tenant accounts. The Finance Division play a big function in managing the funds made to Contractors for main Capital initiatives.
The Finance Division is tasked with guaranteeing that expenditures are managed, and money move is maintained with a view to cowl the expenditure introduced. The Finance Division performs a big function in steering the actions of the respective departments in requests for money outlays and future planning. The Division manages the timing of the money funds and ensures that the respective departments can perform their mandates as effectively as doable.
Property Operations Division:
The Property Operations Division is accountable for the upkeep of over 600 Bermuda Housing Company housing items. The Property Operations Division maintains an general proactive method to the upkeep of items. The Division at present operates with a full-time group of 11 personnel. They’re supported by impartial outdoors contractors who make sure that the Division can fulfill its mandate to take care of BHC properties.
The Division is tasked with three important areas of emphasis: preventative, emergency restore and remedial restore. The requests are managed through two direct phone traces and one after-hours/on-call cell phone. Tenants are issued the related numbers and call element of personnel with a view to report emergencies and basic upkeep requests. All upkeep requests are logged into the MRI property administration database which facilitates digital project of the decision to a upkeep officer or an impartial contractor. MRI additionally permits for the monitoring of expenditures to Bermuda Housing Company properties. Accomplished capital developments are transferred from the Initiatives Division to the Property Operations Division to handle as a part of current BHC properties. The Division is guided by the regulatory framework of the Bermuda Housing Act of 1980 and all subsequent amendments. Departmental insurance policies and procedures are in place to handle contractor lists and assign contracts whereas adhering to the Expenditure Coverage doc.
Administration:
The Administration Division operates below the path of the Normal Supervisor and/or the Chief of Human Providers and performs all kinds of basic clerical duties in help of BHC purchasers and the general public. The division is comprised of 4 full time personnel. The Govt Assistant to the Normal Supervisor and BHC Board Secretary is the conduit for entry to the Normal Supervisor and Board Chairman. The receptionist receives and directs all phone calls and receives and directs all attending purchasers. The receptionist additionally receives mail, logs and distributes it. The Administration Division has the assistance of two workplace assistants who’ve accountability day by day for managing all workplace provides, submitting and messenger duties.
Help Providers Division:
The Help Providers Division [SSD] inside the Company is accountable for guaranteeing that each one candidates, tenants and different purchasers obtain providers relevant to their wants. SSD endeavors to effectively and respectfully handle purchasers from a social perspective by helping them with their quick and future housing necessities previous to them acquiring housing or throughout their current lease agreements with BHC.
Software Course of
All purchasers in search of housing are required to finish an software kind. All functions are legitimate for six months – purchasers should re-apply ought to they not stay in touch with the Company. Every shopper is
required to submit, along with the appliance, his/her Social Insurance coverage quantity, a driver’s license or passport and a present paystub or letter verifying employment and wage data. From an inventory on the appliance kind purchasers point out the explanations for his or her software to BHC. Every purpose has a price computed that leads to the shopper’s placement on both the crucial, pressing or common precedence Waitlist. Following receipt of the appliance, purchasers are scheduled for an interview with the Help Providers Division to determine precise want and precedence.
Revenue is considered throughout the software course of. Bermuda Housing Company subsidizes housing and due to this fact compared with the open market, rents are extra reasonably priced.
Lease
BHC has adopted a coverage of Lease Geared to Revenue [RGI] for tenants in BHC owned items. This coverage permits tenants who’ve low to reasonable incomes to pay hire primarily based on the mixed family revenue reasonably than the BHC market worth for that unit. Complete family revenue applies to all working family members over the age of 18 who’re working full-time. Lease Geared to Revenue is the same as 35% of the overall family revenue; 25% is paid to BHC as hire and is a required and obligatory tenant financial savings plan. Tenants on RGI can pay 25% of the family revenue for hire until the market worth for the unit is much less. The aim of RGI is to help purchasers towards homeownership by together with the obligatory financial savings plan.
Tenant Processes
Candidates who turn into tenants [clients] are required to pay a deposit which is the same as half of the BHC market worth hire for that unit. Deposit and 1 st month’s hire is due on the signing of the lease settlement.
Lease is due on the 1 st day of the month.
One month after preliminary occupancy tenants might be visited by a Leases Inspector to provoke the primary unit inspection. Inspections are carried out each 6 months to make sure that BHC properties are saved in an inexpensive state and to additionally examine that the tenants are abiding by the tenant lease agreements. Through the visits Rental Inspectors take heed to purchasers issues.
Social Service Businesses
A number of Bermuda Housing Company purchasers have important challenges that require specialised help. SSD usually makes referrals to a wide range of native social service businesses that might be of help to purchasers.
Challenge Administration
The Challenge Administration Division is tasked with the accountability to supervise, analyze and critique crucial materials information and statistics with a view to produce value efficient options that facilitate Capital Initiatives for the Bermuda Housing Company.
The Division offers multifaceted approaches to the Constructing Atmosphere by the usage of Structure, City Planning, Group Planning and Development. The Division produces and contributes to important parts of Architectural documentation at the side of personal corporations to make sure high quality and comprehensiveness from which to make cogent choices.
Presently, the Division consists of a Challenge Supervisor, Assistant Challenge Supervisor and a Challenge Officer.
Every put up requires a novel and cohesive set of expertise. Each the Challenge Supervisor and Assistant Challenge Supervisor are required to handle Capital Initiatives and main renovations. The Challenge Officer offers help to managers together with overseeing minor and main renovations. A big portion of the day by day operations embody however shouldn’t be restricted to; accounting duties, numerous correspondence, contractor tendering, high quality management and troubleshooting new / current methods of newly constructed or current properties. The Challenge Administration Division solicits important providers from exterior suppliers, starting from upkeep contracts to capital works initiatives. The Initiatives division is obligated to stick to obligatory Authorities regulatory processes for Tendering and processing Customs Obligation aid for the importation of development supplies, the procurement course of and contractor choice course of. When submitting periodic cost requests for capital work all documentation should adhere to BHC’s coverage for managing funds and retentions on capital initiatives.
Human Useful resource Insurance policies And Procedures
The Human Useful resource Division of Bermuda Housing Company [BHC] is impartial of the Authorities Human Useful resource Division. BHC manages the whole HR course of from recruitment to hiring, compensation and advantages, coaching and improvement, workforce planning, restructure and retooling, worker relations and wage negotiations.
Insurance policies and procedures at present employed to information HR practitioners of their each day operations are the BHC Code of Conduct, The Collective Bargaining Settlement, Depart Coverage Doc, and Uniform Coverage.
Moreover, Employment Act 2000, The Nationwide Pensions Scheme 2000, CURE Laws, Human Rights Laws, Payroll Tax Act and Outdated Age Pensions Laws [Social Insurance].
Worker personnel data are managed inside the HR Division. Public entry to particular names of staff shouldn’t be permitted in accordance with the PATI Laws.
The HR Division can present data pertaining to the group construction, the variety of staff inside the group, the variety of positions accessible and an outline of the positions. The HR Division can present the Job Descriptions and the wage vary relevant to these positions. In accordance with PATI, no particular worker data could also be disclosed in relation to Place and Wage scale.
Programmes
Finances setting procedures and monetary governance is paramount when managing the day by day operations of the Company and planning future capital developments and/or main upkeep overhauls to current properties. The BHC Board is accountable for the setting of coverage and procedures. The Company should additionally observe trade greatest practices and is guided by the phrases and situations as established within the Authorities of Ben-nuda’s set of monetary directions. The Company is required by legislation to supply a set of Audited Monetary statements on an Annual Foundation, at present audited by The Auditor Normal. The newest statements are included as Appendix Il.
Capital Initiatives:
Presently the Company is managing the development and redevelopment of the positioning identified the Grand Atlantic Improvement as it’s transfigured right into a Apartment Lodge to be often known as the Bermudiana Seaside Resort.. An energetic gross sales group is in drive to facilitate the gross sales of this multi-unit mission comprising of studio, one [1] bed room , two [2] bed room and [3] bed room condominiums .
Working Contracts:
Operationally the Company is engaged in contractual agreements for providers in numerous areas referring to property upkeep, leases, and improvement. These are gazette every year as a part of our PATI necessities. In response to the numerous improve in severe crime in Bermuda, and the required precautionary measures as a result of COVID 19 pandemic being instituted, it’s wise to have interaction safety personnel to be accessible on website particularly at BHC’s multi dwelling rooming-house complexes. These contracts quantity to roughly $600K every year.
Bermuda Housing Company
2023/2022 Finances Estimates
| Finances | Forecast | Precise | 2022 | 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2023 | Mar 2022 | Mar 2021 | Variance | Variance | |
| REVENUES | |||||
| Leases | 7,400,000 | 7,246,774 | 7,463,887 | 153,226 | [63,887] |
| Authorities of Bermuda Grant | 12,350,000 | 14,014,000 | 13,150,000 | [1,664,000] | [800,000] |
| Mortgage Curiosity | 52,000 | 58,068 | 156,822 | [6,068] | [104,822] |
| Curiosity and Different Revenue | 143,000 | 142,405 | 142,134 | 595 | 866 |
| Acquire on Disposal | 0 | 0 | 616,254 | 0 | [616,254] |
| 19,945,000 | 21,461,247 | 21,529,097 | [1,516,247] | [1,584,097] | |
| EXPENSES | |||||
| Rental, Restore and Upkeep | 8,189,500 | 8,198,622 | 6,792,109 | 1,397,391 | [9,122] |
| Salaries and Worker Advantages | 5,108,920 | 4,980,734 | 4,812,253 | 296,667 | 128,186 |
| Amortization of Tangible Capital Asset | 2,900,000 | 2,900,000 | 2,789,061 | 110,939 | 0 |
| Normal Workplace | 766,350 | 720,987 | 603,849 | 162,501 | 45,363 |
| Workplace Rental Bills | 572,912 | 608,883 | 615,544 | [42,632] | [35,971] |
| Borrowing Prices | 1,500,000 | 1,522,196 | 2,634,520 | [1,134,520] | [22,196] |
| Provision for Uncertain Accounts | 220,000 | 220,965 | 190,825 | 29,175 | [965] |
| Authorized and Skilled Charges | 231,000 | 161,884 | 128,083 | 102,917 | 69,116 |
| Leasehold | 400,000 | 168,138 | 209,059 | 190,941 | 231,862 |
| Miscellaneous | 1,500 | 0 | 0 | 1,500 | 1,500 |
| 19,890,182 | 19,482,409 | 18,775,303 | 1,114,879 | 407,773 |
Part E: Administration [all public access] manuals
Mortgage Coverage
Drug and Alcohol Coverage
Gown Code Coverage
Expenditure Authorization Coverage
Leases Coverage
Upkeep Coverage
Process for Capital Initiatives Coverage
The Collective Bargaining Settlement
Part F: Resolution-making paperwork [s5[1] fl
Code of Conduct Depart Coverage Doc
Uniform Coverage.
Bullying and Sexual Harassment Coverage
Moreover, the HR Division is certain by Laws relevant to employment practices such because the Employment Act 2000, The Nationwide Pensions Scheme 2000, CURE Laws, Human Rights
Laws, Payroll Tax Act and Outdated Age Pensions Laws [Social Insurance].
You Could Direct Your Request To:
Mrs. Pleasure Symonds
Chief of Human Providers
The Bermuda Housing Company
Tel: [441] 295-8623 ext. 221
Fax: [441] 295-2605
Electronic mail: Joys@bhc.bm
Part G: The Info Officer [s5[1] gl
Lists And Registers
The Property Asset Record may be obtained from the Land Valuation Division and the BHC MRI database.
The Finance Division maintains copies of the Property Deeds which can be held by BHC together with the knowledge asset register.
Part H: Any Different Info [s5[1] hl
Part I: Any Different Info To be Offered?
Part J: Info Assertion: Copies and Updates [s5[2,3,4,5] l
Each public authority shall replace its data assertion not less than every year, and make it accessible for inspection by the general public at cheap occasions by [s5[I -5], PATI Act]: Date Info Assertion was up to date: December thirteenth , 2021
Places of Info Assertion:
The Bermuda Housing Company, Seven Arches Constructing, 44 Church Road, Hamilton:
The Bermuda Nationwide Library:
The Bermuda Archives:
Out there electronically: Web site for public authority www.bhc.bm:
With the Info Commissioner:
Signal and Date:
Paul Martin, Normal Supervisor
[i] Bermuda Housing Act 1980, PART II, Board of Administrators, 6 [1]
Info Commissioner
- Discover sort: Authorities Discover
- Discover sub sort: Performing Appointments
- Discover ID: GN1174/2025
- Public Authorities / Division: Authorities Home
- Publication date: 29 December, 2025
Authorities Discover.
Performing Appointment
Info Commissioner
The Performing Governor is happy to nominate
Ms. LaKai Dill, Deputy Info Commissioner,
to behave because the Info Commissioner from
29 December 2025 – 7 January 2026 or till his return.
Dated day of December 2025
_______________________________
Emily Addiscott
Performing Deputy Governor
Record of Planning Purposes Marketed December 29, 2025
- Discover sort: Authorities Discover
- Discover sub sort: Notification of Planning Purposes Registered
- Discover ID: GN1173/2025
- Public Authorities / Division: Planning
- Publication date: 29 December, 2025
The functions proven under can be found for overview on the Division of Planning’s Buyer Self Service Portal, or between the hours of 8:45 am and 4:30 pm week days on the Division of Planning, Seven Arches Constructing, third Flooring, 44 West Church Road, Metropolis of Hamilton HM12.
Any particular person wishing to object should accomplish that by January 12, 2025 [within 14 days of the date advertised].
For additional data on the objection process see the Improvement and Planning [Applications Procedure] Guidelines 1997 and the Objections Steering Notes discovered on the Division web site.
Paget
P0333‑25
Hugh Barit
Heaps 4 & 5 Lovers Lane, Paget
Proposed Single Household Home, Pool, and Related Improvement [Driveway, Cesspit, Backwash Pit].
[Final Approval]
Pembroke
P0330‑25
Glenn Clinton
15 Lone Palm Drive
Proposed 5 Foot-Excessive [Max] Inexperienced PVC Coated Chain Hyperlink Fencing with Gates.
[In‑Principle Approval]
P0329‑25
Donna Trott
101 St. John’s Highway
Proposed Amalgamation of #101 with the Adjoining Vacant Lot, New Industrial Improvement with Showroom, Workplaces, Storage Space, Automotive Parking [5 Spaces] and Retaining Partitions 4 Foot-6-Inch-Excessive [Max].
[In‑Principle Approval]
Smiths
P0336‑25
Andrew Butt
6 Verdmont Lane [Listed Building]
RETROACTIVE Software for Proposed Revised Balcony with Help Posts.
[Final Approval]
St. George
P0316‑25 [Re-Advertised]
The Mid Ocean Membership Ltd
Parcel 43876 North of 16 Lengthy Lane
Proposed Excavation Work for Current Agronomy Constructing.
[Final Approval]
To All Collectors and Shareholders of Wizard Upkeep Restricted
- Discover sort: Authorized Discover
- Discover sub sort: Part 199A Discover to Collectors and Contributories
- Discover ID: LN0804/2025
- Public Authorities / Division: Registrar of Corporations
- Publication date: 29 December, 2025
Re: Wizard Upkeep Restricted – In Liquidation
In accordance with part 199A of the Corporations Act 1981 [“Companies Act”], the Official Receiver and Provisional Liquidator of Wizard Upkeep Restricted [the “Company”] is happy that the realisable property of the Firm are inadequate to cowl the bills of the winding up and that the affairs of the Firm don’t require any additional investigation. Accordingly, the Official Receiver hereby offers 28 days’ discover that he intends to use to the Registrar of Corporations for an early dissolution of this Firm.
The Official Receiver hereby ceases to be required to carry out any duties imposed upon him in relation to this Firm, its collectors or shareholders by advantage of any provision of The Corporations Act, other than his responsibility to use to the Registrar of Corporations for the dissolution of this Firm. The Registrar of Corporations shall dissolve this Firm, 3 months after receipt of the Official Receiver’s software.
In accordance with s199B of The Corporations Act, if any creditor or shareholder has grounds to imagine that:
the realisable property of this Firm are enough to cowl the bills of the winding up; or
the affairs of this Firm do require additional investigation; or
for some other purpose the early dissolution of this Firm is inappropriate.
The creditor or shareholder could apply to the Official Receiver to:
allow the Winding up of the Firm to proceed as if this discover had not been issued and/or
to defer the date on which the dissolution of the Firm is to take impact, if the appliance has been made to the Registrar of Corporations
Kenneth Joaquin
Official Receiver and
Provisional Liquidator of
Wizard Upkeep Restricted
The official notices above have been republished from the related part on the official Authorities web site. For those who want to view ‘exhausting copies’, the Division of Libraries & Archives prints them and you’ll go to the principle library on Queen Road or the Authorities Archives within the Authorities Administration Constructing on Parliament Road to view them.
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