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
The national interest strikes back
Opinions
James Debono
While moral conservatism has come back to haunt the PN, Labour is increasingly appealing to an intolerant brand of nationalism to shoot down critics of the sale of citizenship
MEPA set to ban high buildings at Ta’ Masrija
National
MEPA issues public consultation with the aim of revising an existing policy on high building towering over a ridge in Mellieha.
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
2013: was it really the year of Malta Taghna Lkoll?
National
2013: was it really the year of Malta Taghna Lkoll?
National
2013 in review | The five worst planning decisions
Environment