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
Planning Authority executive chairman’s new salary under discussion
National
A PA spokesperson has confirmed that the executive chairman is being paid the same salary previously enjoyed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Malta Environment and Planning...
MaltaToday survey | 64% of young Gozitans say you need a political saint for jobs, permits and contracts
Data & Surveys
Younger respondents are more likely to think favouritism is rife in Gozo and that under Labour it has become easier to seek the help of politicians for contracts, permits and jobs