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
Gozitan MPs opposed to development at Ħondoq
Environment
We asked all six Gozitans MPs – three of them Labour ministers – whether Ħondoq ir-Rummien and its disused quarry site, should be declared as...
Updated | Five planning board members recuse themselves from DB project meeting
National
DB project decision time | The chairpersons of the planning board and the Environment Resources Authority have withdrawn from the meeting • Saga has pitted...