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
Marsaskala seabed to be reclaimed for waterpolo pitch
National
Over 2,300sq.m of Marsaskala’s seabed will be reclaimed for a waterpolo pitch and clubhouse, but two biologists have warned of the negative impact on protected sea grasses...
[ANALYSIS] Adrian Delia’s budget speech: Hard hitting but predictable
Budget 2020
Adrian Delia’s budget speech was no game changer as this word by word analysis reveals