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
Malta’s empty houses up by massive 36% in six years
National
One in every three dwellings vacant - vacant properties shoot up from 53,136 in 2005 to a staggering 72,150 in 2011.
Adding life to years: the promise of active ageing
Interview
We need to challenge preconceived notions on retirement to ensure that older people participate fully in the country’s social and economic life in such a way that they live a...