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
It gives you wings: med students say energy drinks are little helpers
Health
Medical students survey finds 68% consume energy drinks, one-third of which started as early as 11 years of age
[ANALYSIS] Robert Abela: Carpe diem or blissful honeymoon?
National
Robert Abela pandered to a constituency which loved and adored Joseph Muscat but presented himself as an outsider with the interests of the common folk at heart.