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
Ditching Labour: Bold move or hasty turn for Marlene Farrugia?
National
 As a Labour MP she was a thorn in Joseph Muscat’s side, like Franco Debono was in Lawrence Gonzi’s, making more news by defying the party line rather than as an...
Speaker, MPs meet Azerbaijan ruler Ilham Aliyev on sham election day
National
Maltese MPs exchange pleasantries with Azerbaijan ruler Aliyev while controversial elections were being boycotted by Opposition parties