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
Minimum wage: Poland overtakes Malta despite 11% increase
National
Malta registered the sixth highest increase in minimum wage among 22 EU states but remains stuck in 12th rank after being overtaken by Poland 
Labour starts European election race 15,000 votes ahead of PN
Data & Surveys
MaltaToday EP election survey: PL 47.9%, PN 41%, Others 11.1% • Turnout 62.5% • Trust Barometer: Robert Abela 41.1%, Bernard Grech 16.7%, None 42.2% •...