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
Ethics to be option for all 13-year-olds as O-level candidates grow by 32%
National
Exam candidates sitting for the subject of ethics have climbed from just 38 in 2018, to 738 – a new national strategy now proposes the subject be an option for all...
Ghallis landfill lifespan extended by two years in race against time
Planning
Wasteserv will increase the Għallis landfill capacity by approximately 840,000 cubic metres in a bid to buy the site a lifeline for 29 more months