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 regularises Polidano’s illegalities in listed Balzan garden
Planning
NGO representative lashes out at ‘build now, sanction later’ mentality perpetuated by permit issued on Thursday  
Modernist HSBC branch in St Paul’s Bay faces the chop
Planning
A nine-storey hotel is being proposed in place of the former HSBC branch in Triq San Pawl, St Paul’s Bay