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
No consultation on MEPA’s new ‘compromise penalties’
National
MEPA claims the present law does not allow for any flexibility to reflect the circumstances of particular cases
Water: Not a gift from God
Environment
The reason why the economic value of water has not been determined is the widespread belief that water is “a gift of God”, a Today Public Policy Institute report says....
Water tariffs do not reflect 'opaque subsidies'
National
[ANALYSIS] Hunting casts shadow on local elections
Marsamxett breakwater could alter harbour circulation
Yes victory: a poisoned chalice for Muscat
Opinions
MEPA offering ‘compromise penalty’ for illegalities
Hunting referendum confirms Maltese regional divide
A Yes victory: the consequences
National
Why the polls got it wrong
National
From priest politicians to spring hunting: Malta’s six referenda
Hunting referendum: An east-west divide?
Data & Surveys
Labour defending 17-point majority
National
How 45-year lease was turned into 99-year emphyteusis