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
Need for ODZ Micro Enterprise Park questioned
National
Proposed development foresees micro-enterprise park (SME park) within a quarry at Tal-Qormija, Mgarr, that covers an area of 8408 square metres.
MEPA financial accounts for 2011 still being finalised
National
MEPA’s annual report of 2011 has been finalised and will be presented to the MEPA board “in the coming days”.
[ANALYSIS] The deputy leadership contest Lawrence Gonzi wanted?
Development aid: Maltese a bit more stingy than other Europeans
IVF twist: Poland to fund unregulated IVF services
National
Tonio Borg | After the grilling
Opinions
Lawrence Gonzi’s chess moves in nominating Borg commissioner
Euro-parliamentarians have highest profile in Malta
National
[ANALYSIS] Technocrats or democrats?
Elections 2013
[ANALYSIS] Good cop, bad cop
National
Labour’s policy complex
Opinions
Valletta council drops plans for Mattia Preti hotel
National
On government’s watch: cleaners employed in breach of employment rules
[ANALYSIS] Lawrence Gonzi’s last cards
Budget 2013