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 snubs ERA, approves store in Zurrieq valley
Planning
The Planning Authority has approved an 80 square metre 'store' with an underlying basement on the steep side of the Wied Babu valley, ignoring comments from...
A vote for Trump was a despicable choice
Opinions
James Debono
Call me part of the liberal elite, but a vote for a playground bully like Trump was a despicable choice that must be understood, but never condoned