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
When it all goes wrong, watch out for ‘the Farage’
Opinions
James Debono
Malta may be a more fertile ground for home-grown Farages than we think. For when it comes to a debate on fundamental values, our political class has been completely absent.
Stately Mrabat Street home earmarked for Bilom’s hotel
National
St Julian’s home could become six-storey terraced boutique hotel