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
Six reasons why the PN leadership race is repetitive and predictable
National
The contest between two middle-aged, bespectacled male lawyers is as stale and predictable as it gets
Zebbug council rues parking loss from Dar Bjorn hospice
Planning
The Zebbug local council has unanimously objected to proposed changes to plans for the new Djar Bjorn hospice, which foresees the removal of 20 underground car park spaces