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
Road Devil’s umbrellas get permit
National
The Sliema council had also objected to the development, describing it as a “loss of valuable public space”.
Dishing out land to Sadeen is feudal not progressive
Opinions
James Debono
Dishing out public land at a discount price without even issuing a tender to choose the best bidder is not progressive but downright feudal governance.