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
Heights on protected Wilga Street are ‘necessary evil’ says watchdog
Planning
Adding three storeys to a row of protected townhouses is a 'necessary evil' to protect Paceville’s Wilga Street from blank walls, the Superintendence for Cultural...
Residential development foreseen on former Marsa power station site in proposed planning guidelines
Planning
Marsa harbour regeneration plan envisages closure or scaling down of abattoir • High rise developments excluded