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] Ground water: Pay today to save for tomorrow
Interview
Protecting Malta's ground water is his job. Manuel Sapiano argues it is in the best interest of everyone that this resource is used judiciously. The CEO of the Energy and...
PA set to refuse 'unacceptable' lift on Macina hotel
Planning
A proposed glass lift on top of the Macina hotel in Isla is unacceptable because it negatively impacts the skyline, a case officer has concluded