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
Paint it darker: Design fix for Naxxar guesthouse
Planning
The Planning Authority’s Design Advisory Committee has called for a darker colour scheme to tone down the visual impact of a proposed 46-room hotel next to Naxxar’s...
There’s no need to choose: Palliative care and euthanasia can coexist
Opinions
James Debono
Dignity means recognising that a life burdened by intolerable pain and loss of control is not worth preserving at all costs. Otherwise we would be treating life as an ideological...