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
[ANALYSIS] How planning magic turned ruins to villas
National
MaltaToday probes the permits granted over the past four years allowing ruins to be transformed into villas through policies which the Environment and Resources Authority has...
[ANALYSIS] The vote that may have solved nothing
National
Divided parties are destined to lose. For the PN the question from now on is: ‘Can the party re-unite before the next general election?’