The Corporation of Hamilton is to make public its decisions for the first time in its 213-year history.

The municipality issued a statement yesterday saying members had agreed that their resolutions would now be posted on the noticeboard in the City Hall foyer on the last Tuesday of every month.

The decision comes after The Royal Gazette's A Right to Know: Giving People Power campaign called for the Corporation, which meets twice a month, to open up its meetings to the public and become more transparent.

Corporation secretary Ed Benevides said yesterday: "The members of the Corporation are pleased to provide this service to the public.

"We believe that the public has a right to know how decisions made by the Corporation affect City operations. Posting the resolutions will give the public easy access to decisions that might directly impact them. We encourage everyone to visit City Hall and familiarise themselves with the resolutions."

Mr. Benevides said technical adjustments were being made to the Corporation's website — www.cityhall.bm — so that the resolutions could be posted online in the near future.

"Until that time, we will post them on the noticeboard and publish them in the daily newspaper," he said.

The Corporation released its September resolutions yesterday. They included ending the use of all flashing amber lights in City traffic lights, installing a crosswalk on Reid Street linking Fagans and Joells alleys, denying a request by the Bermuda Music Festival to hold a party at Fort Hamilton, awarding a contract to Terceira Quarterly to modify Par-la-Ville Cottage to create public toilets for the park and approving the demolition of the public toilets building at Union Square car park to create extra parking space.