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
Enemed submits plans to expand Ħas-Saptan fuel depot into ODZ land
Planning
Enemed has submitted plans to significantly expand its National Distribution Centre at Ħas-Saptan in Għaxaq, with the proposed development extending further into ODZ land
ANALYSIS | How Labour squared the budget circle
National
Despite tax cuts, higher spending, and global crises, Malta’s economy keeps defying the fiscal laws of gravity, but at what cost? James Debono tries to find some answers