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
Balzan project decision deferred after IT malfunction leaves objectors out of meeting
Planning
Only 12 objectors out of 257 had been informed of the planning meeting that was to decide the fate of Balzan apartment project to replace defunct Dolphin Centre
[ANALYSIS] How Meloni’s victory could increase Malta’s migration woes
National
On September 25, Italy goes to the polls with Giorgia Meloni’s conservative Fratelli d’Italia – whose emblem carries the tricolor flame of the post-fascist...