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
Incineration of animal waste taking place without official controls, report reveals
National
The Maltese authorities have been accused by the European Commission of neglecting official controls on the incineration of animal waste
PN’s lack of debate ‘keeps the peace’ inside divided PN
National
Both PN leadership candidates say they are OK with a debate, but the party has decided to go back on its 2017 precedent