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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 IGM national press awards' environmental reporter of the year in 2011 for his report showing how a beverage company that extracted over 51,000 of cubic metres of water every year from the national water table for free, was awarded an environmental award by the University of Malta. Debono also heads Mediatoday's survey unit, which has conducted polls on all electoral appointments since 2008, correctly predicting the outcome of all elections and the 2011 divorce referendum.

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. James is married and has a son. His interests include listening to music and reading.

Articles by this author

Heritage watchdog warns of domino effect on Zebbug streetscape with Dar Bjorn extension

Planning

The Superintendence of Cultural Heritage is objecting to a five-storey extension of Dar Bjorn in Zebbug, warning this would create a domino effect on the streetscape

Over 108 million bottles of water extracted for free by companies in six years

Environment

Beverage companies have extracted the equivalent of 108 million two-litre bottles for free from the ground, to be sold again as water or carbonated soft drinks over the past six...