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
77% of patients in health centres are not given their files
National
Study also finds that 75% of GPs wrote notes on the patient’s file when medical records were provided. 
30% do not turn up for Mater Dei appointments
Health
Non-attendees were contacted via telephone call and asked to explain their non-attendance, with the main reasons for non-attendance being forgetfulness (53%), and unawareness of...