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
Palumbo exported grit before Planning Authority issued enforcement against shipyard
Environment
Palumbo was granted a permit to export sand blasting grit two years after taking over the shipyards, but contrary to claims by PA chief Johann Buttigieg, this was done prior to a...
[ANALYSIS] Who will take the Opposition forward?
National
James Debono outlines the strengths and weaknesses of the PN’s four leadership candidates as voting time approaches for the PN’s General Council