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
Gozo accounts for only 2.5% of domestic violence cases
National
The small community of San Lawrenz was the only locality in the entire country in which not a single case of domestic violence was reported in the past three years.
Obituary | Lino Spiteri, his own man
National
Business-friendly but intellectually on the left, the oldschool politician came close to taking Labour to the European social democratic mainstream.
MEPA set to ‘dismiss’ permit for Black Gold’s extended pavement
New roundabout proposed opposite White Rocks
National
Solar farm proposed at Lapsi Reverse Osmosis plamt
National
Downscaled Balzan project set for approval
National
MaltaToday Survey | Traffic overtakes migration as top concern
Data & Surveys
Spot the tea party
Opinions
Leisure Clothing: One Maltese job for every five Chinese
Updated | Government non-committal on ODZ hotels in the south
Toxic energy politics
Opinions
Does Malta need three power sources?
National
MaltaToday survey | Muscat holds up declining Cabinet ratings
Data & Surveys
Motorsports track proposed in Ahrax quarry
National