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
Hurdle for Delia, Catch-22 for Grech: the PN’s due diligence curveball
National
What if the PN finds dirt on its two leadership candidates? Four pitfalls the party is looking at with its new due diligence process
Xaghra caves threatened by illegal excavations
Planning
The Superintendence for Cultural Heritage has expressed “grave concern” on an application to regularize illegal excavations for a four-storey hotel on Xaghra’s...