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
Heritage watchdog accused of suppressing evidence of Muslim past
National
Superintendence of Cultural Heritage rebuts author’s accusations, and say it will publish archaeological investigations on Arab period in 2015.
Caqnu enforcement? Pull the other…
Opinions
James Debono
On the eve of an environmental protest, a well-choreographed action on Charles ‘Caqnu’ Polidano seems to send the message that government has no strings attached to the...