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
The quest for Malta’s best town
National
Most popular surnames, vacant housing, and airconditioning units... a snapshot of Malta's major villages
Census finds 17,398 ‘secondary homes’
National
One fifth of houses in Sliema used as a secondary residence
Labour gets bigger in Gozo
Europe
The pushback legacy: 6,761 ‘neo-Nazi’ voters?
The country needs strong opposition(s)
Opinions
How party vote shares changed from 2013 to 2014
Minister regrets hunters’ ‘right of reply’
Simon Busuttil: A diminished leader
Opinions
[ANALYSIS] How result tallies with the polls
Poll of polls: Labour heading for absolute majority in European elections
MaltaToday survey • Labour in six-point lead
Qawra Palace eyeing public foreshore
National
Hate fireworks? Noise pollution law on the way
Environment
A boring, repetitive campaign
Opinions