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
Cabinet Papers | Cutting the apron strings
National
Some things never change: by the late 60s, the Borg Olivier administration had come full circle, from trying to give a new lease to the property market by promoting Malta as an...
European elections | Who will clinch the third seat?
National
Informal polls and suggestions from party insiders have already identified MEP front-runners and those likely to get a third seat in the next European elections
Stealing from the commons
Opinions
Ministers’ ratings: Bartolo gets 61% approval from young vote
Joseph Muscat slips on emission rules
National
New school to be built instead of planned park
National
Delimara: why all the haste?
Opinions
Rate the minister survey: boost for cabinet ministers
National
[ANALYSIS] Muscat’s vision: Do not covet thy (rich) neighbour
New control centre discovers widespread illegal trawling
New MEPA board overturns 56% of negative decisions
National
Marsaxlokk mayor open to compromise on gas storage
National
Height increases in Marsaxlokk should be avoided - EIA
National
Brand new fireworks factory proposed in Siggiewi
National