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
MEPA allows ODZ building to grow by 138%
National
The directorate argued that the approval was in breach of a policy which does not allow extensions to be bigger than the original building.
Maltese at work: Three out of four have male boss
Business News
An EU-wide survey also shows that the Maltese are more likely than other Europeans to work longer hours, to breathe in fumes and dust, and work in physically painful positions.