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
Malta way off target to cut carbon emissions, EU report shows
National
Carbon emissions shot up by 28% since 2005 • Malta lags behind in EU emissions target but surpasses the employment and tertiary education targets
Proposed Ta’ Qali retail hub breaches PA’s supermarket policy
Planning
A proposed zoning policy to permit the development of supermarkets on an industrial site in Ta’ Qali near the American embassy, contradicts the Planning Authority’s...