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 IGM national press awards' environmental reporter of the year in 2011 for his report showing how a beverage company that extracted over 51,000 of cubic metres of water every year from the national water table for free, was awarded an environmental award by the University of Malta. Debono also heads Mediatoday's survey unit, which has conducted polls on all electoral appointments since 2008, correctly predicting the outcome of all elections and the 2011 divorce referendum.

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. James is married and has a son. His interests include listening to music and reading.

Articles by this author
From wedding hall to luxury dwellings: Wied Babu bungalows set for approval
Townscapes
The Garden of Eden wedding hall within the protected Wied Babu valley is set to transform into 12 one-storey bungalows with pool
The nightmare scenario: Are we on the eve of a global war?
World
In the aftermath of yesterday’s airstrike killing 500 Palestinians in a Gaza hospital, what are the risks of the conflict escalating into a regional or even global...
Best of times no more as 69% think country is taking a wrong turn
The Gaza tinder keg
National
Għaxaq braces for second retail centre on industrial site
'We do not use free groundwater' - Farsons
National
Planning Authority approves Msida flyover project
Townscapes
PA approves ODZ 'gated community' in Magħtab
Townscapes
They say they will not vote. But who are this mixed bunch?
Visual study for Naxxar seven-storey development kept hidden
PA rejects Beefbar bid to install pontoon
Townscapes
Australia Hall site zoned for three commercial blocks
Townscapes
An end to free water? Government plan proposes groundwater pricing policy
Hamas’s actions are hideous but the occupation has to be challenged