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
Gifts, jobs and lunches: new rules for old sins in Hyzler’s code of ethics
National
A new code of ethics proposed by Malta’s standards czar is set to change the way ministers and MPs conduct their affairs from business lunches with businessmen proposing big...
Stigma on methadone for heroin users is wrong, doctors say
Health
Authoritative study shows that addicts undergoing methadone treatment perform better in daily cognitive functions like orientating themselves and planning ahead, than addicts who...