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
Transport museum proposed in Birkirkara garden
National
Birkirkara council to turn childcare centre located in Gnien l-Istazzjon into a transport museum.
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Interview
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Opinions
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National
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Data & Surveys
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National
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National
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Business News
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Industry takes ownership of policy on hotel heights
Business News
China to the rescue
Opinions
A normal life and a hidden hand | Syrians living in Malta
Interview
No studies on gas pipeline alternative in Delimara EIA
National