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
PA embarks on enforcement action against Pietà boċċi club
Planning
Planning Authority had already issued enforcement orders in 2017 and 2021 against illegal excavations in the protected fortifications where the boċċi club is located
Non-Maltese pupils now majority in six State primaries
National
Nearly 65% of pupils in Sliema, Gżira, Qawra and St Julian’s are non-Maltese, with data showing divide between north’s urban multiculturalism, and southern, rural...