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.

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Teens were asked to define family values, so they said ‘Christmas lunch ‘ – exam report
National
Social Studies examination report from MATSEC reveals how students presented Christmas lunch as a traditional family value and that the great majority of candidates fail to grasp...
Birgu regatta club extension could hamstring city’s UNESCO heritage bid
Property
According to the Superintendence, the proposed increase in height and volume in the immediate vicinity of the harbour fortifications will result in a high visual impact