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
Tumas Group gets Portomaso lagoon permit under new MEPA appeals board
National
New appeals board appointed by Labour government overturns 2012 decision not to grant Tumas Group permit for lagoon at Portomaso.
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Interview
Vindicated by the onslaught in the international media, which equated the Individual Investor Programme to a sale of citizenship, the Opposition’s shadow minister on home...