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
Filipino workers in Malta increase by 1,056 in six years
National
One fifth of legally employed non-EU nationals hail from Sub Saharan Africa, down from a third in 2011
[ANALYSIS] After Budget 2017 | ‘Turbo’ Joseph vs ‘Doomsday’ Simon
Budget 2017
In his bullish and formidable speech on Wednesday, Joseph Muscat boasted of getting things done in “turbo” speed, dismissing Simon Busuttil as the “bird of ill...