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
Paceville: scheduled Wilga Street could be set for three-storey rise
Planning
An entire row of nine, scheduled townhouses on Paceville’s Wilġa Street are being proposed for an additional two floors, in a bid to avoid blank party walls
Sliema Tower Road: new 15-storey hotel proposed
Planning
Similar request twice previously refused, by planning commission and appeals tribunal