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
Muscat: From Abela’s millstone to trump card?
National
Joseph Muscat will not be on the ballot sheet but the conclusion of a magisterial inquiry on the privatisation of public hospitals weighs heavily on the outcome of midterm...
Nadur’s Villa tal-Kokka could be replaced by 34 flats
Planning
Four-storey block proposed on ridge’s edge where local plan requires high quality-design that blends well with surroundings