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
Concrete plants take 400 million litres of groundwater: free
National
Concrete plants have sucked up 402 million litres of groundwater – for free. That’s the equivalent of 200 million bottles of water. But should they not start paying...
Five years on: between a tsunami of change, and the inertia of power
National
Five years on after the brutal mafia-style assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, most of her favourite targets have been forced out of positions of power. But little...