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
An open letter to the Prime Minister | ‘The buck stops here’
Opinions
James Debono
Expecting civil servants to pay a price for participation in democratic life shows how lowly the Office of the Prime Minister’s view of democracy is.
Views are commodities, Mellieha residents told in report
National
“Views are commodities, which are bought and sold" - Concludes an Environment Planning statement in response to residents' concerns on high-rise development.
Is PN experiencing a ‘midlife crisis’?
Data & Surveys
Where are the socialist extremists?
Opinions
Maltese researcher casts doubts on nicotine’s healing properties
[FULL DATA] Majority wants an election now
Data & Surveys
Majority wants an election now
National
January 2012: A taste of things to come?
National
GRTU waste recovery company GreenMT fined by MEPA
Business News
WSC has no control on rainwater disposed in sewage
National
Analysis | Gonzi and the national interest
National
Government, opposition mum on Armier commitments
National
Local plan to accommodate new Chinese Embassy
National
One fourth of university students on diet – report
National