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
Close to 80% of Jerma Project earmarked for apartments
Planning
Local plans approved in 2006 state that development on the Jerma site should be mostly for tourism, while a development brief from 2021 designated 51% of the site for...
Just over half of under-three-year-olds attend childcare
National
Just over half of children under three now attend early childhood education, up from 20.2% in 2013. This increase is largely due to the introduction of free childcare for children...