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
[Survey] Said and Refalo lead Gozo MPs, 60% of Gozitans want tunnel
Data & Surveys
Gozo minister Anton Refalo and PN MP Chris Said most popular candidates in Gozo
Ombudsman’s inquiry that exposed planning duplicity in Ian Borg case
National
Same case officer, same location, but different verdicts for MEPA applications filed by Kevin Bugeja and then by a junior minister, the latter now part of a corruption probe. How...
Road Devil’s umbrellas get permit
National
Dishing out land to Sadeen is feudal not progressive
Opinions
Religious buildings singled out in policy revision
National
49% of Maltese expect increase in their income
National
Two kiosks proposed on Coast road
National
Livestock farm to be upgraded into two warehouses
Planning
Residents could be ‘elbowed’ out by Tigné skyscrapers
Matsec warns against 'mindless rush for exams'
National
Church calls on politicians not to attend events in illegal establishment
Heritage watchdog warns Valletta’s UNESCO status undermined by Tigné 40-storey hotel
Gozo tunnel: The battle for paternity
National
40-storey hotel to make 'strong statement'
National