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
Four-storey office block proposed on Birkirkara Bypass townhouse
Planning
A four-storey office block with three underlying parking levels is being proposed on the site of a townhouse and its garden fronting the Dun Karm Bypass
[ANALYSIS] Hardline Gonzi risks upsetting Grech’s apple cart
National
Lawrence Gonzi’s call for a campaign to overturn the newly approved cannabis law by “any legitimate means” adds pressure on the PN to commit itself to withdraw...