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
Central Bank warns: Malta needs exit strategy from fuel subsidies
National
Malta’s fixed-price energy subsidies have shielded households and businesses from the energy crisis but a Central Bank study now calls for a phased exit strategy
One in four knows someone who took or gave bribes, survey finds
National
A survey commissioned by the European Commission finds that Maltese think corruption is most widespread among political parties and the Planning Authority