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
Culture wars: How hunting, migration and abortion weigh on the next election
National
Malta’s next general election should be a time of reckoning for the nexus between politics, organised crime and big business exposed in the Caruana Galizia assassination...
Despite COVID-19 emergency, 25% of nurses still won’t get immunised
National
Study co-authored by Health Superintendent Charmaine Gauci suggests mandatory influenza vaccination for all health workers