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
MEP elections: some easy predictions
Opinions
James Debono
Labour is set to win the MEP elections. The unknown variable is the scale of Labour’s victory.
‘Our issues’ in the European parliament
Europe
Prompted by the issues singled out by respondents to the latest MaltaToday survey, can  the European Parliament tackle these concerns effectively?
Gharghur traffic could gridlock in 2020
National
The silence of the lambs
National
Sky’s the limit for seven hotels under new policy
Oil exploration safety reports kept under wraps
National
Luqa council objects to Wied Garnaw development
National
Search for ‘food champions’ to start very soon
MEP elections: Labour voters say migration is top issue
Wied Garnaw test case: MEPA faces 2007 precedent
National
Primary schools: to band or not to band?
National
[ANALYSIS] Simon’s way out… Unity at any price?
Water Services using 33% less energy for reverse osmosis
Has new McDonalds drive-thru aggravated traffic problems?