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
Gonzi, new home affairs minister, reconsidering police force’s tattoo ban
National
Prime Minister tells House the government is reconsidering policy that bans tattooed candidates for police force.
[ANALYSIS] The elephant in the house
National
Who emerges stronger after last Monday’s vote – Lawrence Gonzi or Franco Debono? And which victory was the most Pyrrhic, Muscat’s on Wednesday or Gonzi’s on Monday?