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
Malta’s population surpasses half a million mark
National
Preliminary Census figures suggest Malta’s population has increased by 99,000 since 2011
[ANALYSIS] ‘Grow and spend’: How parties’ manifestos converge and diverge
Election 2022
The fiscal austerity that characterised the Gonzi years has been exorcised by a decade of increased public spending financed by higher economic growth: a ‘grow and...