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’s case officer claims Dingli Cliffs hotel ‘more rural’ than disused building
Planning
A Planning Authority case officers has described a brand new hotel at the site of the disused Pulvich explosives factory at Dingli Cliffs, as 'far more rural' 
Heritage watchdog objects to 11-storey hotel abutting Villa Bonici gardens
Planning
Superintendence for Cultural Heritage decries unauthorized works carried out in 2019 on a garden behind old farmhouse in Parisio Street