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
Ireland decides on abortion. But who is their pro-choice prime minister Leo Varadkar?
World
The pro-life stand is a mark of identity for the PN, but even their EPP friends in Ireland are moving the other way on abortion. JAMES DEBONO says the PN’s models in Europe...
Dom Mintoff villa gets scheduling seldom reserved for stately homes
Planning
Late Labour premier’s Tarxien home’s Grade 1 scheduling will stop next-door development, but timely scheduling is seldom reserved for other gems threatened by...