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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

Hard day's slog: 15% of Maltese work more than 45 hours a week

National

Malta registers third highest share of workers working over 45 hours in the European Union according to the latest Eurostat data

Bus usage reached record 7.5 million passenger trips in August

National

Public transport struggles to keep up as crowded buses become the norm on routes used by both commuters and tourists. Passenger trips have surged 35% since 2019, while the number...