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
Case officer recommends refusal of Kalkara villas
Planning
According to ERA the development will disrupt the rural setting and adversely affect the ecological importance of site and the surrounding Area of Ecological Importance/Site of...
[ANALYSIS] Malta’s abortion debate: Ticking the next progressive box
National
Malta’s abortion debate has evolved from an attempt to impose its prohibition on future generations after EU membership, to last week’s demand by the Women’s...