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
Who did the ALS ice bucket challenge?
Data & Surveys
One in seven – some 50,000 – would have done the ALS ice bucket challenge in Malta according to a survey carried out by MaltaToday
Gzira public gardens to be partly ‘commercialised’
National
The garden, which is presently administered by the Gzira and Ta’ Xbiex councils, was one of the areas set to be included in a tender for the privatisation of the Ta’...