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2 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 26 JANUARY 2020 SPORT LATEST RESULTS NEWS Football F.A. Trophy Pietà Hotspurs 2 Xewkija Tigers 1 Pietà Hotspurs starting line-up: Miguel Chetcuti, Neil Pace Cocks, Dejan Vukovic, Clyde Bouvet (Clive Gauci-72), Christian Sammut, Caetano Ze lucas, Kilian Amehi, Quincy Bregman (Travis Bartolo-32), Liam McKay, Irmiya Jalo Ishaya, James Scicluna (Nicholas Pisani-75) Xewkija Tigers starting line-up: Mark Grima (Leonard Camilleri-22), Manuel Tabone, Mario Vella (Johnny Camilleri-74), Jackson Siqueira, Claudio Antonio Pavlidis, Rodney Buttigieg, Jose Carlos Nogueira, Martin Hrubsa, Dylan Merciea, Milos Stojanovic, Claudio Frances Referee: Daniel Portelli Assistant Referees: Duncan Sultana, Christopher Francalanza Scorers: Clyde Bouvet (Pietà), Caetano Ze (Pietà) Balzan 2 Santa Lucia 0 Balzan starting line-up: Kristijan Naumovski, Augustine Loof, Nenad Sljivic, Steven Pisani, Paul Fenech, Alfred Effiong (Luke Montebello-72), Uros Ljubomirac, Ivan Bozovic, Arthur Faria Machado, Andrija Majdevac (Marcus Grima-90), Samir Arab (Steven Bezzina-45) Tarxien starting line-up: Timothy Aquilina, Gabriel Mentz, Kevin Correia, Adam Magri, Jackson Mendoza, Diego Segura, Kevin Rosero, Jacob Walker (Daniel Agius-69), Farid Zuniga, Jamie Zerafa (Jamie Magri Overend-72), Rei Tachikawa (Omar Elouni-56) Referee: Glen Tonna Assistant Referees: Alan Camilleri, Mitchell Scerri Fourth Official: Stefan Pace Scorers: Andrija Madevac (Balzan), Ivan Bozovic (Balzan) Pembroke Athleta o Hibernians 4 Scorers: Dunstan Vella, Imanol Irriberi, Ferdinando Apap, Myles Beerman (Hibernians) Floriana 2 Senglea Athletic 0 Scorers: Diego Venancio, Brandon Paiber (Floriana) TODAY'S MATCHES Swieqi United vs Hamrun Spartans 2pm Victoria Hotspurs vs Gudja United 3pm Valletta vs Sirens 4:15pm CONTINUES FROM PAGE 1 "The name of the game is making money of course for this private concern, so they want the government to pay more over the years of the con- cession," a source with knowl- edge of the meeting said. The original deal signed with VGH in 2015 was to have the new managers invest about €250 million in the first years of the concession agreement, by building state-of-the-art fa- cilities at the three hospitals. Little of that investment was ever managed by VGH after folding in 2017, when it failed to obtain financing from inter- national banking institutions, and selling the concession to Steward. It is understood that minis- ters in Abela's Cabinet might want no truck with a deal that was being led by former health minister Konrad Mizzi at the time, who captained the VGH privatisation up until his re- moval in 2016. It would make this a prop- er headache for Robert Abela, having to face demands from his predecessor on the priva- tisation deal, as well as trying to placate a Cabinet which was not supportive of his leader- ship bid in the first place. The privatisation project was led by the government's PPP arm Projects Malta, which has now moved out of the former Mizzi ministry and into Ian Borg's ministry for transport, infrastructure and capital pro- jects. At the time of VGH's award of the contract, Armin Ernst had been recruited by VGH as its chief executive officer af- ter having originally served at Steward as administrative of- ficer; after VGH's sale to Stew- ard, Ernst was reinstated as president of Steward Health- care Malta. The 30-year deal binds the Timeline 10 October 2014 The investors behind Vitals Global Healthcare sign a memorandum of under- standing with Malta Enterprise for a public-private partnership in the health sector. 23 November 2014 The Vitals investors sign a memorandum of understanding between them, detailing a project that involves the Gozo hospital and possibly the acquisition of St Luke's (State-owned) or St Phil- ip's hospitals (owned by Frank Portelli). February 2015 A presentation drawn up by Vitals refers to their project as the Gozo and Malta medical complex. The presentation is used to attract finance to their project that includes St Luke's, Karin Grech and Gozo hospitals. It also in- dicates that government would pay a minimum yearly sum of €70 million for beds that would be used in the public health service. The presentation also speaks of a concession period spanning 99 years. 4 March 2015 News breaks that Josie Muscat is selling off Cap- ua hospital and the Saint James brand to American and Pales- tinian businessmen. 18 March 2015 The government signs an agreement with Barts Medical School for the opening of a campus in Gozo. The med school will be part of the Gozo hospital to be built anew. 27 March 2015 Projects Mal- ta, under Konrad Mizzi's wing, publishes a request for propos- als seeking private investors to Steward deal could be Abela's