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
No Xemxija-to-Mellieha road link before 2025
Planning
A new road between Xemxija and Mellieha is still included in the list of new roads qualifying for EU funding but will not be completed before 2025, a reply to a parliamentary...
DB paying €15 million cash, but property buyers will front €23.4 million for ground rents
Business News
A €60 million price tag for the land occupied by the outgoing Institute for Tourism Studies is split between a €15 million premium payable over seven years and...