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
Supermarket and mall proposed instead of Ħaż-Żebbuġ batching plant
Planning
Staggering 50,000sq.m retail space instead of batching plant, near pristine rural area along Triq Wied is-Sewda in Ħaż-Żebbuġ
MaltaToday survey: Concerns about foreigners and traffic eclipse inflation worries
Data & Surveys
MaltaToday survey shows that concern about inflation has fallen from 29% in February to 10% now, as concern about foreigners working in Malta re-emerges as the nation’s top...