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
After court case, MEPA tweaks Ghaxaq height limits and Piju Camilleri gets six penthouses
National
After reaching 2013 agreement with MEPA to drop court case, former Lorry Sant henchman Piju Camilleri gets permit for six penthouses in tweaked MEPA policy for Ghaxaq
Energy: Time for full parliamentary scrutiny
Opinions
James Debono
I do not expect the PM to resign over a misguided pre electoral PR move, which may not significantly impact on the overall  success of Labour's energy  plan, but I...