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
Ħaġar Qim resto raises concerns over light, noise and cars
Planning
Heritage Malta has expressed 'grave concern' on the reconstruction of the dilapidated Ħaġar Qim bar and restaurant just 100m off the World Heritage site
Heads of school say they have little training on child abuse
National
Study finds 64% of school principals encounter cases of child sexual abuse in their schools with 65% fulfilling legal duties to report, but many say they have had less than 7...