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5 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 12 NOVEMBER 2025 NEWS By means of a decree on the 5th March, 2025, in the records of the judicial le er number 4048/2024, in the names GasanZammit Motors Limited vs Stephen Schembri et, the Courts of Magistrates (Malta) ordered the following publica on for the purpose of service of the respondents Noshair Nasim Akhter and Maqbool Mumtaz in terms of Ar cle 187(3) et sequitur of Cap. 12. By means of a judicial le er filed in the Courts of Magistrates (Malta) against Noshair Nasim Akhter (ID 150645A) and Maqbool Mumtaz (ID 77060A) of 12, Hacienda, Triq P. Borg Olivier, Swatar, Birkirkara, on the 6th December, 2024, GasanZammit Motors Limited (C- 57642) of Gasan Group Office, Gasan Centre Level 4, Triq il- Mergħat, Zone 1, Central Business District, Birkirkara CBD 1020: 1. Makes reference to the amount of €10,450 on bills of exchange duly accepted by you and listed in the a ached list as GZM 1, and which amount is due and has not been paid (copies of these bills of exchange are herewith a ached and marked as document GZM 2) together with interest from the date when the aforemen oned balance fell due on the bills of exchange ll the effec ve payment; and 2. Solicits you so that within ten (10) days from the day you are no fied with this present, you pay the sum of €10,450 represen ng the balance on the said bills of exchange besides the interest due by you from the aforemen oned balance fell due on the bills of exchange ll the effec ve payment. In default the interpellant company will furtherly proceed against you, without further no ce, and with all the means given by law including the issue of the opportune warrants. This le er is being made for all the purposes and effects of law and to render the same bills of exchange an execu ve tle in terms of Ar cle 253(e) of Cap. 12 of the Laws of Malta. By means of this present, you are informed, that in terms of Ar cle 253(e) of Cap. 12 of the Laws of Malta, you have the right that within twenty (20) days from the date of service of this act, you will present an applica on to oppose the execu on of this bill of exchange above men oned on the fact that the signatures on the same do not belong to your or those of your mandatory or for other grave and valid reasons to oppose such execu on according to law. So much so that you may know how to regulate yourself. With costs, including this present, and with interest according to law ll the date of effec ve payment. Registry of the Courts of Magistrates (Malta) today 31st October, 2025 ALEXANDRA DEBATTISTA For the Registrar, Civil Courts and Tribunals Man hospitalised after St Paul's Bay motorcycle accident A 39-year-old man was hos- pitalised on Tuesday after- noon after an accident in St Pauls Bay. The accident occurred at 1:30 pm on Triq Dawret San Pawl. According to reports, a Transport Malta motorcy- cle was stopped in the mid- dle of the road to close off a section due to an oil spill. At the time of the incident, there was no one on the motorcycle. The victim, from Floriana, was driving his Honda mo- torcycle when he drove into the Transport Malta motor- cycle. A medical team arrived on the scene, and the man was given aid. He was then taken to Mater Dei, with his con- dition still unknown. JULIANA ZAMMIT jzammit@mediatoday.com.mt The accident occurred at 1:30pm on Triq Dawret San Pawl CONTINUES FROM PAGE 1 But is there any truth in the claim that Malta was better-off by €63 million? The short answer is: Not real- ly. The 'better-off' argument was made by Steward but shot down by the government's own expert witness at the tribunal. But let us first examine how the figure came about. In its submissions before the ICC, Steward provided two as- sessments of the value of health- care services it provided the Gov- ernment of Malta—the low value at €604.4 million and the high val- ue at €667.6 million. The low value assessment was what the government actually paid Steward according to con- tractual provisions. The high val- ue assessment was based on the value of services offered at Mater Dei Hospital. The difference be- tween the high assessment and what government actually paid was €63.2 million. The tribunal considered the ac- tual sum paid by the Maltese Gov- ernment (the low value) as "the most reliable" (Article 925 of the judgment) for determining the value of the healthcare services received by the government dur- ing the lifetime of the concession agreement. At face value it would seem that the government did truly save €63 million from the Steward deal when the healthcare servic- es provided by the concessionaire are benchmarked with Mater Dei costs. However, the ICC assessment of Steward's claim did not stop here. In Article 965 of the ruling, the tribunal stated that it is "not im- pressed" by Steward's argument that the value of healthcare servic- es rendered under the agreement "should be increased to reflect the higher sums the Government of Malta paid for comparable servic- es at Mater Dei". Indeed, in Article 967 the tribu- nal argued that it "finds it difficult without precise expert evidence to compare the healthcare servic- es provided at the hospitals [part of the concession] with those dis- pensed at Mater Dei". "The latter [Mater Dei] is a newly built and more advanced hospital, which inherently offers a different and better mix of ser- vices compared to the Hospitals [Gozo General, St Luke's and Ka- ren Grech] under review," the tri- bunal said. But it was not just the tribunal that reached such a conclusion. Government's own witness, Jo- seph Zarb Adami, a former clin- ical director at Mater Dei and a consultant to the Health Ministry, was asked by the tribunal wheth- er Mater Dei could serve as an appropriate benchmark for eval- uating the performance of Gozo General Hospital. His testimony was reported ver- batim in Article 968 of the ruling: "GGH [Gozo General Hospital] could never be [Mater Dei]. [Ma- ter Dei] has different resources and different jobs. It is not GGH. (…) MDH is a different hospital. It has much, much more resources, for example [Mater Dei] has to be available all the time to carry out emergency head surgery, emer- gency surgery in children, emer- gency cardiac surgery, traumatic surgery, which Gozo didn't (…)." This means that the cost of the services offered by Steward in its hospitals, primarily Gozo General and Karen Grech, could never be compared with the cost of those same services had they been ren- dered at Mater Dei. The €63 million in savings real- ly and truly never existed because the comparison with Mater Dei could never be made—a position outlined by government's expert witness and upheld by the ICC tribunal. The tribunal judgment found that Malta still owed Steward a little less than €5 million, reject- ing both government's claim to recoup €488 million from the company and Steward's bid to be compensated to the tune of €158 million for contract termination. Mater Dei cannot be compared to Gozo Hospital Gozo General Hospital could never be Mater Dei... Mater Dei has to be available all the time to carry out emergency head surgery, emergency surgery in children, emergency cardiac surgery, traumatic surgery, which Gozo didn't...