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
Over 1,500 gamblers bar themselves from casinos
National
Casino players requesting to be excluded from Maltese casinos, bingo halls and gaming parlours in 2022 stood at 1,531, a 22.8% increase from the previous year 
Concerns persist over visual impact of planned elderly home in Naxxar ODZ
Planning
An elderly home proposed outside development zones in Naxxar by Marlon Brincat, the Labour minority leader of the Naxxar local council has been granted clearance. However the...