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.

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Maltese public broadcaster among least trusted in Europe
National
Maltese citizens are the third least likely in the European Union to trust public television, according to a Eurobarometer survey held in October 
ODZ shopping mall and hotel proposed next to Marsaskala petrol station
Planning
Development which includes a supermarket is being proposed next to petrol station and 155 meters away from another supermarket also being proposed outside the development boundary