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
60% of drug users hospitalised for social reasons
National
Nearly one in five patients admitted to Malta’s mental health hospital with substance use disorder was homeless, a new study reveals
Maltese prehistory rewritten: Hunter-gatherers reached islands earlier than believed
National
Ground-breaking discovery reveals Malta was inhabited 1,000 years earlier than previously thought—by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers who crossed 100km of open sea from Sicily...