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PAGE 5 T&C APPLY If you are buying or selling property you only have till end March 2021 to avail from the government COVID-19 property incentives, with as much as €14,000 in savings. COVID-19 PROPERTY TAX INCENTIVES WILL END SOON. ACT NOW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. Get in touch now to find out more. franksalt.com.mt/gov-incentives TRUTH IS OF NO COLOUR WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT/COVID19 SUNDAY • 17 JANUARY 2021 • ISSUE 1107 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY maltatoday Hospitals: Steward to be facility managers The Nationalist MP and electoral expert crunches the party numbers INTERVIEW MT2 SCHIAVONE Can you take the vaccine? PAGE 6 COVID pregnancy €1.95 Cabinet memo proposes deal to stop emphyteusis and retain Steward as facility managers of hospitals MATTHEW VELLA THE Maltese government is planning to 'take back' the three hospitals it granted in a contro- versial multi-million deal to the unknown Vitals Global Health- care, in a face-saving deal it will broker with Steward Health- care. Ministers were shown details of a plan by the health ministry that will lead to the stoppage of the emphyteutical deal, effec- tively returning the Gozo, St Luke's and Karin Grech hospi- tals to the Maltese state. However, the Maltese govern- ment has agreed that Steward Healthcare, the American med- ical company that is currently running the three hospitals, will be facility managers and responsible for the upkeep and equipping of the hospitals. QUOTAS Who would be elected to the House under the quota plan? PGS 14-15 NICOLE MEILAK AN inmate in a Dutch peniten- tiary has shared recordings he made of Melvin Theuma, the middleman in the Caruana Gali- zia assassination, in which Theu- ma allegedly speaks of his fear of Keith Schembri and retribution by the former chief of staff to prime minister Joseph Muscat. The Dutch man, 21, whose identity is known to MaltaToday, shared a series of recordings he made of Theuma with the law- yers of Tumas magnate Yorgen Fenech, the man accused of being the mastermind of the assassina- tion. Dutch fugitive taped Theuma PAGE 3 Assassination middleman Melvin Theuma blabbed to Dutch teen staying at Portomaso Hilton of his fear of Keith Schembri