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
Guesthouse set for approval in St Julian’s valley
Planning
A final decision on this development is expected in two weeks’ time on 15 March, and follows last Thursday’s rejection of an old people’s home in another part of...
[ANALYSIS] What to do with Madame President: is Coleiro Preca planning a return to politics?
National
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca’s term as President ends in April 2019, two months before the European elections. Will the Labour firebrand return to active politics and at what...