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James Debono

James Debono is MaltaToday's chief reporter on environment, planning and land use issues, and one of the newspaper's main political analysts. Apart from blogging regularly on politics, James Debono won the IĠM national press awards' environmental reporter of the year in 2011 and in 2025. Debono coordinates MaltaToday's surveys, which has conducted polls on all electoral appointments since 2008. He read history and obtained his Masters' degree from the University of Malta, and in the past worked for TV production house Where's Everybody before joining MaltaToday in 2005. A co-founder of Moviment Graffitti and active in Moviment ghall-Ambjent, he served as a media officer for Alternattiva Demokratika - the Green Party.

Articles by this author

Increase in foreign workers: It’s not the young leaving; it’s rapid economic growth

National

Central Bank report debunks claims that young Maltese are leaving the country in large numbers or that public sector growth is driving employers to rely on foreign labour.

The tale of the two Abelas: Neutrality at home, rearmament in Brussels

National

There is dissonance between Robert Abela’s neutralist and pacifist rhetoric aimed at a local audience and his willingness to sign a declaration committing the EU to...