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
Shopping mad: Over 107,000 square metres of retail space awaits green light
Planning
New commercial projects and megastores could add floor areas of over 107,000 square metres to Malta’s heaving retail business: twice the area of Sliema’s and...
MaltaToday Survey | Maltese split on teaching of Islam in state schools
Data & Surveys
Survey results also show a relative majority of respondents (48%) agreeing to making the teaching of ethics compulsory while 87% of the general population supports retaining the...