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
Women earn €158 less per month than men
National
Labour force survey indicates largest gender pay gap among professionals where on average men report earning €309 more than women • Females in elementary jobs...
ERA gives go-ahead on ‘sanctioning’ illegal Grotta nightclub
Planning
The Environment and Resources Authority has issued its clearance for a planning application to regularise extensive illegalities in the Grotta nightclub encroaching on the...