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
Gaffarena gets permit for Sliema apartment block
Planning
Entrepreneur Marco Gaffarena has been awarded a permit to build seven apartments and two garages instead of a corner townhouse and a shop in Sliema
Trust Barometer | Muscat’s trust dips to Panama levels as PL leads by 4 points
Data & Surveys
At 3.5 points, the trust gap between the two leaders is the narrowest registered in MaltaToday’s surveys since the 2013 general election