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
[ANALYSIS] Simon Busuttil’s new gamble: Echoes of 1996?
National
It was a 'new social alliance' with the self-employed that won Alfred Sant an improbable majority of votes in the 1996 general election. In promising a reduced 10%...
EU survey: Girls in Malta live longer, healthier lives
National
Girls in Malta and boys in Sweden have the highest number of expected healthy life years, according to the Healthy Life Years