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
Senior EU Commission official questions Maltese language requirement for teachers
National
Public Services Commission concludes that requirement for teachers in Malta to be able to speak Maltese as well as English does not infringe EU directives
Life after Gaddafi – what future for post-war Libya?
World
Libya is not the first country to experience sudden and drastic regime change. JAMES DEBONO explores historical parallels between Libya and other countries which either...
Storm water outfall should be located at Ta’ Barkat –MEPA experts
Public Service Commission reprimands Police Commissioner
Superintendence objects to shopping complex next to Citadella
Good causes fund subsidises Eurovision and MEPs
National
Nobody loved the colonel
Opinions
Coastal defences proposed for Marsalforn Bay
National
New Dwejra park manager expected to organise boathouse area
No straight answers from eco-tax authority on how GRTU 'purchased' its tax exemption
[SURVEY] Labour ahead in Gozo by a whisker
National
Gozo dominated by its women
National
65% of all Gozitans  favour tunnel
National
Balancing revenue and expenditure
Opinions