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
Planning Authority orders reassessment of Marsaxlokk tower relocation
Planning
​The Planning Authority’s planning commission has decided that an application to demolish a historical watchtower in Marsaxlokk, to make way for a new road on land added...
PA defers decision on Excelsior 77-room extension
Planning
PA chairman says that there is need for “further consultation” on application which was heading for approval before being reported to UNESCO by a Maltese NGO