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
Neutrality ‘very important’ to Maltese
Data & Surveys
Only 13% think Malta has a very good reputation abroad, with most attributing reputational problems to the FATF greylisting
Study suggests 17-student limit for MCAST classes
National
Larger class sizes are leading to lower end-of-course scores obtained by MCAST students, according to a study published in science journal Xjenza