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
Massive 24-block ‘Maltese village’ proposed for Naxxar trade fair
National
Trade fair grounds in Naxxar earmarked for mega-project, comprising two eight-storey towers.
[ANALYSIS] Citizenship for a house?
National
Will the decision to tie the acquisition of Maltese citizenship under the IIP to the purchase or renting of property lead to an increase in property prices?
Religion examiners say teens have ‘distorted idea of sin’
The national interest strikes back
Opinions
MEPA set to ban high buildings at Ta’ Masrija
National
Delimara: residents should be compensated for eyesore
Intravenous drug users account for 68% of Hepatitis C patients
Villa Bonici development ‘premature’, MEPA to present new brief
Privatisation remains preferred option, says transport chief
Residents prefer offshore terminal – Delimara gas plant EIA
The 'taghna lkoll' buses
Opinions
Gas plant will improve air quality if energy demand stays the same
2013 in review | Muscat, from poetry to theatre
National
2013 in review | The green balancing act
Environment