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
The tale of the two Abelas: Neutrality at home, rearmament in Brussels
National
There is dissonance between Robert Abela’s neutralist and pacifist rhetoric aimed at a local audience and his willingness to sign a declaration committing the EU to...
Birgu Regatta Club applies to sanction illegal kiosks
Planning
The Birgu Regatta Club has applied to regularise two illegally constructed kiosks known as il-Kajjik kiosks, and for the placing of chairs and tables next to them