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
Students with exam assistance for ADHD, dyslexia reaches all-time high
National
Boys twice as likely as girls to request O-level exam arrangements, with 19% hailing from independent schools, in contrast with less than 14% from state schools
Ministers deny discussions with Mgarr solar farm proponents
Planning
Solar farm proponents requested PA to postpone decision as they intended to present new plans, following ‘discussions’ with three ministries, all of which are denying...