{"id":15141,"date":"2011-11-17T08:17:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T13:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=15141"},"modified":"2011-11-17T08:32:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T13:32:02","slug":"amendments-to-treasure-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/11\/amendments-to-treasure-laws","title":{"rendered":"Amendments To Treasure Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15156\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15156\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15156\" title=\"charles-maynard\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/charles-maynard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/charles-maynard.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/charles-maynard-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Maynard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Recommended amendments to the Antiquities, Monuments and Museums Bill in the House of Assembly would allow people to greater benefits from treasure excavations.<\/p>\n<p>The government has proposed a 75 to 25 per cent ratio with the majority share, going to the excavator. There are some conditions, however, one being that the government would receive a greater share depending on the cultural value of the artifact.<\/p>\n<p>The Bill states: &#8220;Both government and licensee to agree in writing that government&#8217;s retention of artifacts important to the protection of the national patrimony may exceed government&#8217;s 25 per cent share in certain years with the imbalance to be corrected by future divisions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Youth, Sports and Culture Minister Charles Maynard said the government is sensitive to the high risk taken by excavators, often involving deep ocean dives. A higher level of documentation of findings is also encouraged.<\/p>\n<p>Another condition aims to ensure preservation of all salvaged artifacts. Excavators will be required to possess a wet and dry restoration unit as a part of their equipment. Such a machine is currently utilized by the Antiquities, Monuments and Museums Corporation, housed at Fort Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>The amendments to the bill aim to update the law relating to the salvage and recovery of the underwater cultural heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amendments to the Antiquities, Monuments and Museums Bill would allow excavators greater benefits from treasure salvages while also protecting artifacts of cultural value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[55,70],"class_list":["post-15141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-awards","tag-ocean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}