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
Villa Rosa high-rise could overshadow protected valley, ERA warns
Planning
Environmental watchdog concerned on excavation in buffer zone of protected cave, says scale of development proposed warrants a new EIA to assess its impacts
Għarb local council objects to fireworks factory near picnic area
Planning
Application foresees reconstruction of a fireworks factory, which had left five dead in 2010 explosion