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
Former Labour MP may get his hotel after all
National
Former Labour MP John Dalli was previously refused a hotel permit in M’xlokk area earmarked for environmentally friendly tourist development in a new policy being drafted by...
MaltaToday Identity Survey | Language is what makes us Maltese
Data & Surveys
Find out which personality is Malta’s best export, our favourite foods, the hegemony of Kinnie, and our knowledge of Maltese history and identity.
[ANALYSIS] The rise of China’s soft power
National
‘Serious public health risk’ persists at abattoir
National
Vince Farrugia: from feared kingmaker to deposed ‘pope’
Business News
The sky is the limit: New policy set to abolish height limits on hotels
Industry takes ownership of policy on hotel heights
Business News
China to the rescue
Opinions
A normal life and a hidden hand | Syrians living in Malta
Interview
No studies on gas pipeline alternative in Delimara EIA
National
MEPA rejects ‘marine’ proposal from Planning Ombudsman
Rationalisation returns to haunt Attard residents
National
EIA leak suggests 50% less emissions from Delimara gas plant
Drill and be damned? - Geologist warns of oil exploration risks