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
Joseph Portelli applies to sanction giant illegal pools in Qala
Planning
Application foresees regularisation of  two pools one of 414 sq.m and another of 267 sq.m.
Apartments cost 11 times the annual income of single buyers
National
In 2000 a two-bedroom apartment cost seven times the annual salary of single. Buyers. Two decades later, that rate is now 11 times an annual salary