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
The nightmare scenario: Are we on the eve of a global war?
World
In the aftermath of yesterday’s airstrike killing 500 Palestinians in a Gaza hospital, what are the risks of the conflict escalating into a regional or even global...
Best of times no more as 69% think country is taking a wrong turn
Data & Surveys
‘Foreigners’ and cost of living are the top concerns of voters. Government still gets a pass mark with regards to its performance
The Gaza tinder keg
National
Għaxaq braces for second retail centre on industrial site
'We do not use free groundwater' - Farsons
National
Planning Authority approves Msida flyover project
Planning
PA approves ODZ 'gated community' in Magħtab
Planning
They say they will not vote. But who are this mixed bunch?
Visual study for Naxxar seven-storey development kept hidden
PA rejects Beefbar bid to install pontoon
Planning
Australia Hall site zoned for three commercial blocks
Planning
An end to free water? Government plan proposes groundwater pricing policy
Hamas’s actions are hideous but the occupation has to be challenged
PN ahead with 5,000 votes as anger sinks Labour
Data & Surveys