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
40-storey hotel to make 'strong statement'
National
Proposed hotel on Fort Cambridge barracks set to make "strong" architectural statement while increasing traffic by 1,527 cars, according to project development...
Permit issued despite lack of archaeological monitoring
National
The residential block is located in Triq Antonio Mallia in Victoria, within the 50-metre buffer zone for a 4.5-metre high menhir in the outskirts of the town.
EU poll shows terrorism overtaking climate change as Malta’s top global problem
Decision time tomorrow on Nadur belevedere
National
Shooting range proposed in Siggiewi ‘disused quarry’
PN economic vision: All hype with no beef?
National
Nitrates high in Malta’s three watercourses
Environment
72 North Koreans working in Malta
National
Businesses get cheaper water the more they extract from boreholes
Cruise ships set to berth off Xlendi
National
53% think Malta will ‘benefit from CHOGM’
Data & Surveys
A gift from Sadeen to the Marsaskala local council
Opinions
Ditching Labour: Bold move or hasty turn for Marlene Farrugia?
Speaker, MPs meet Azerbaijan ruler Ilham Aliyev on sham election day