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
Lija mayor livid at MEPA
National
No reply from MEPA on proposed local plan changes three years after Walker welcomed Lija’ council’s positive initiative
‘MPs are not robots’
National
When Eddie Fenech Adami defended the right to vote against one’s government.
When Muscat called on Sant to act like a lion
National
Democracy in free-fall
Opinions
MEPA board gives interpretation to planning law
National
Zabbar-Tarxien link road to complement SmartCity road
National
A shotgun election?
Opinions
Armier: chickens coming home to roost
National
Wardens to enforce smoking law in playing fields
National
Politics... who cares?
National
Armier lobbyist invokes PM's promise as MEPA turns downs substation
Government to raise penalties against trading in influence
OPM says party financing law being 'fine-tuned', AD hits out at PN-PL laundering
Updated | Party financing loopholes tailored for PN donors, says Labour