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
Give migrants' children citizenship
Opinions
James Debono
Our President George Abela should take the cue from Italian President Giorgio Napolitano to address the plight of children born to foreign migrants.
PL clearly in the lead but PN edges closer
National
Opposition trusted more than Gonzi in running economy
51 points… for 51%?
National
Unlucky rabbits: farms with less than 50 rabbits can still slaughter on premises
Environmental Protection Department shoots down Smart City road
Women account for two-thirds of new Gozitan students
National
Civil service still awaiting punch clocks
National
Farewell Berlusconi. Hello Monti
Opinions
Government still to set minimum qualifications for child carers
Budget 2012 | A case of political or economic brinkmanship?
Eco-taxation… the carrot and the stick
Budget 2012
After divorce, the ‘Family Budget’
Budget 2012
Malta among least secretive states
Business News
40% of quarries subject to MEPA enforcements
National