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
[ANALYSIS] How Muscat ditched Robin Hood without forgetting the poor
Budget 2017
Budget 2017 crystallizes Joseph Muscat’s economic vision: state intervention to distribute wealth, without harming business interests. What is the Prime Minister thinking?
Paceville consultants Mott MacDonald paid €307,000 direct order for master plan
Planning
A €307,810 direct order was awarded to the two UK consultants for the preparation and finalisation of a new Paceville local plan after the PA contacted nine foreign...