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
The opposition we need
Opinions
James Debono
How can the PN reinvent itself now that Labour occupies most of its ideological niches and wields the same power of incumbency that turned the PN into an effective ‘natural...
Poacher or gamekeeper? | Sandro Chetcuti
Interview
Developer Sandro Chetcuti has just been appointed on the Building Regulations Board. As a developer who enjoys the trust of the new government, will he be acting as poacher or...
1,807 enforcement reports in 2012
National
Developers and architects dominate new board
National
Petrol station proposed for Maghtab
National
Developers propose demolition of Villa Rosa wall
National
MEPA’s data protection excuse shot down by commissioner
Chinese investment riddles
National
Apartments, car park and supermarket proposed in St Julian’s
Not just play, but also work on Santa Marija | MaltaToday Survey
Environment Protection still headless at MEPA
National
Minister at a bus stop | Joe Mizzi
Interview
MaltaToday survey | The Great Siege syndrome: one in five thinks Malta is being ‘invaded’
Marsascala caravan project exempted from EIA
National