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
Medical study calls for mandatory helmets for children
Health
A report in the Malta Medical Journal proposes that it should be mandatory for children to wear helmets when riding a bike, but it also advises against mandatory helmets for...
[ANALYSIS] The Salvu Mallia paradox
National
Salvu Mallia was introduced by Simon Busuttil as a role model for switchers and floaters. But what does his cocktail of social liberalism and Muscatophobia, say about the...