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
MaltaToday survey shows Labour Party trusted more than the Nationalist Party on major concerns
Data & Surveys
MaltaToday survey | Labour leads the PN by big margins on public finances and cost of living but scores lower margins on environment, traffic and population growth
Buskett elderly home: Case officer recommends approval despite ERA objections
Planning
Planning application seeks demolition of vacant Buskett Forest Aparthotel and its replacement with a three-storey, 54-room old people's home