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
Europa Nostra lists Fort Chambray barracks among Europe’s most endangered
Court & Police
Din L-Art Ħelwa president Patrick Calleja warns site’s threat comes not from natural disaster but from ‘speculative interests’ seeking private development,...
PA approves Corinthia Oasis hotel and 25 luxury villas
Planning
Former Ħal Ferħ holiday complex in Għajn Tuffieħa to be transformed into a 161-suite hotel and 25 high-end villas after the Planning Board gave unanimous approval