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
Calypso works come with souvenir shop, raising watchdog’s eyebrows
Planning
Stabilisation plans to protect Gozo’s fabled Calypso cave are making way for a new souvenir shop and interpretation centre, raising the eyebrows of the heritage watchdog
Ian Borg ministry wants Mgarr road to get its Via Sagra
Planning
The transport ministry led by Ian Borg is requesting a planning permit for a government project that blurs the line with popular religiosity