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
Portomaso lagoon development recommended for approval
National
MEPA’s Planning Directorate recommends the approval of 46 villas set on a lagoon located in a zone designated as an ecological area in the original permit for the Portomaso...
The ‘Arab Kissinger’ comes to Malta
National
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, emir of Qatar, will be visiting Malta amidst rumours of looming oil and gas deals and growing Qatari influence in Libya and the Arab world.