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
Crematorium proposed in private ODZ cemetery
National
Outside-development-zone cemetery for 1,000 graves and crematorium.
Tariffs for bowsers still to be established
National
Water bowsers presently extract ground water for free to sell it to households and hotels at a profit.
The Trojan budget
Opinions
Prevalence of married women in lower rungs of the income ladder
Maltese not keen on transgender, non-Catholic prime minister
Inside the PN’s deputy leadership | Ministers versus MEP
Farm waste disrupting sewage treatment plants
National
[ANALYSIS] Labour's safest bet: Simon Busuttil or Tonio Fenech?
Need for ODZ Micro Enterprise Park questioned
National
MEPA financial accounts for 2011 still being finalised
National
[ANALYSIS] The deputy leadership contest Lawrence Gonzi wanted?
Development aid: Maltese a bit more stingy than other Europeans
IVF twist: Poland to fund unregulated IVF services
National
Tonio Borg | After the grilling
Opinions