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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

Planning appeals reform still in the making

National

Planning Authority CEO Johann Buttigieg had promised in March that a reform to the planning appeals system will be in place within three months

Manoel Island: How Abela and Grech wavered under pressure

National

In the space of a week, and under mounting public pressure to turn Manoel Island into a national park, both political leaders have adopted a more forceful stance towards MIDI. But...