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
Proposed Jerma high-rise to include 166 apartments and 250 hotel rooms
National
The project is set to produce 108,000 cubic meters of construction and demolition waste • Deputy Mayor describes project as the first step towards disfiguring Marsaskala
Third of students at risk of becoming early school leavers
National
A report issued by MATSEC has found that nearly one-third of students born in 2002 failed to obtain a pass in at least five SEC subjects, risking to join the rank of early...