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
Hotel and apartment blocks proposed in St Julian’s village core
Planning
A boutique hotel and two apartment blocks are being proposed on a large site in the historic heart of St Julian’s, raising questions about how the development would fit...
Japan’s tuna imports expose Malta’s outsized role in global seafood trade
National
Since 2014, Malta’s bluefin tuna production has soared by 242%, giving Malta an outsized influence on global markets, even as the sector remains highly...