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
Five-storey apartments proposed instead of Birgu barn
Planning
Superintendence concerned by “extreme intensity” of proposed development in the vicinity of fortifications
Dizz gets permit for tables and chairs in Gzira tower’s public open space
Planning
Environment and Planning Tribunal clears permit for chairs and tables in roofed open space next to Café Pascucci at 14 East high-rise development in Gzira