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
Fortina requests two more storeys on Tigné block
Planning
New plans also envisage an extension of the two already approved uppermost floors, increasing the bulk of the project
The PN paradox: Renewal under a beaten leader
National
Bernard Grech failed in his main mission of reducing the gap while succeeding in enabling a generational change on the party’s parliamentary bench. But is he the right...