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
PA approves supermarket, 26 apartments along Birkirkara bypass
Planning
Supermarket and apartments approved in site which is partly being used as boatyard, and is mostly vacant
Farmers turn to organic alternatives as fertiliser use falls
National
Għaqda Bdiewa Attivi coordinator Malcolm Borg says high prices are pushing farmers to switch to organic fertilisers, as new NSO data shows marked drop in inorganic fertiliser use...