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
Use of gravel at Ta’ Qali 'sterilises' soil, expert says
National
Leading arborist Jonathan Henwood says the gravel spread across the Ta’ Qali picnic area has further ‘sterilised the soil’ which was already stressed by allowing...
Magħtab recycling plant will process 70,000 tonnes of waste yearly by 2030
National
Magħtab recycling plant processing capacity of 70,000 tonnes is based on expected population increase and assumption that 50% of recyclable material currently disposed of in...