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
Superintendence for Cultural Heritage green-lights Suq tal-Belt canopies
Planning
Arkadia has presented new canopy design for the tables and chairs area in front of the Suq tal-Belt, which had been hit by a planning enforcement issued in October 2019
Four reasons Labour is at loss when called out by Graffitti
National
Graffitti are a tough nut to crack for Labour: it is confused on how to react to direct actions that defend the commons, like the ‘reclaim Comino’ event