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
MaltaToday survey | Muscat holds up declining Cabinet ratings
Data & Surveys
FULL DATA • Prime Minister 14 points ahead of Simon Busuttil in MaltaToday Trust Barometer
Motorsports track proposed in Ahrax quarry
National
The application has not yet been validated by MEPA, which is still awaiting for submissions requested in a screening letter.
Government seeks to remove ‘neighbour’s veto’
National
Spinola project earmarks more office and parking spaces
Mdina council issues tender for Casino Notabile
National
[ANALYSIS] Re-branding Simon or aping Joseph?
National
Lidl gets play area, outside development zone
National
Pet cemetery exempted from EIA
National
‘More solid and longer lease’ for Ghadira beach rooms
Archbishop’s palace garden should be open to public – Valletta mayor
La Grotta owners apply to sanction illegalities
National
Xaghra council served with enforcement notice
National
Domestic quarrels among reasons for self-poisoning
Mintoff’s Delimara country house sold for €250,000