James Debono

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
WSC promises ‘a direct assault on plastic bottles’ by improving tap water
National
The Water Services Corporation is standardising tap water quality to replace plastic bottles
Three surveys, same PN score, different leads
Data & Surveys
Three surveys published within a week converge on the PN’s score but differ on the scale of Labour's majority and even more on third-party backing. James Debono crunches...