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
Foreign workers paying over €100 million in social security
National
Foreigners contribute whopping €102 million into social security pot in 2017 • 17% of NI contributions in 2017 made by foreigners, up from 14% in 2016
St Paul’s feast: Have the Maltese fallen out of love with Sunday Mass?
National
The fact that some 70% of Maltese Catholics say they still pray every day could point to society having less time for mass rather than a widespread loss of religiosity