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
Free childcare for families with jobless parents proposed
National
Government set to extend free childcare to families with jobless parents, after shooting down PN proposal made in the 2017 general election
Solar farm proposal on Għajnsielem greenhouses turned down
Planning
A proposal to erect three massive greenhouses, partly covered by PV panels, on open countryside in Gozo has been shot down