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
Decision drags on six years from Palumbo toxic dumping appeal
National
The planning appeals tribunal has not decided on the Palumbo appeal to an enforcement notice against toxic dumping, six years and 23 sittings on
Malta has third lowest increase in statutory minimum wage in EU
National
Malta registers the third lowest increase in its statutory minimum wage according to a comparative study by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working...