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
ERA shoots down Portelli’s attempt to regularise Nadur walls
Planning
The Environment and Resources Authority has shot down an attempt by Chloe Portelli, daughter of construction magnate Joseph Portelli, to regularize a series of...
After Schembri’s asset freeze and arrest, is Robert Abela tightening the noose around Muscat?
National
Instead of digging in his Brutus’s dagger, Robert Abela prefers watching the noose get tighter around his predecessor. JAMES DEBONO asks how far will Abela go, and will...