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
Europe’s stain of shame: How indifference has overtaken memories of Lampedusa tragedy
National
Five years ago a boat carrying over 500 migrants – almost all of them escaping from Eritrea’s totalitarian regime – caught fire 800 metres off the coast of...
More private landowners trying to extend Malta’s development boundaries
Planning
An unprecedent action at revising the building zones that were already controversially extended in 2006