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 approves seven extra floors on DB’s Pembroke towers
Planning
DB Group application to add seven and six extra floors to its Pembroke towers project  approved by eight votes against two, with Pembroke mayor Kaylon Zammit and NGO...
Naxxar council approves pedestrianisation plans
Planning
Naxxar Nationalist mayor defends council decision to pedestrianise narrow road next to the playing field despite opposition from two PN councillors