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
Paceville’s quaint townhouse row faces Westin expansion
Planning
Westin Dragonara hotel wants Planning Authority to change zoning rules in Paceville, and extend the ‘entertainment priority area’ to its parking area on the coastline
French voters pick between a peg on the nose or a stinky raspberry
Europe
France chooses: will Mélenchon’s left-wing voters hold a peg on their nose to re-elect Macron, or will they blow a raspberry to send shockwaves across the EU?