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
Red flag, red bag: Comrade Clyde rediscovers the S-word
Budget 2023
Since the 1990s Labour has been reluctant to flaunt its socialist credentials in its bid to win over the middle-classes. So what lies behind Clyde Carauna’s pride in the...
One in four people residing in Malta in 2021 were born abroad
National
In 2021, one in every four persons residing in Malta was born in another country, according to Labour Force Survey module carried out during 2021 and partly financed through...