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
WATCH | George Vital Zammit on what being a nationalist means today
Interview
George Vital Zammit has the task of coordinating the Nationalist Party’s electoral programme but in doing so he is also trying to answer the existential question of what it...
New car park for 481 cars proposed at Smart City
Planning
The creation of 600 new parking spaces was a contractual obligation for the Maltese government under the renegotiated agreement with Smart City, signed in 2022