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
Jerma brief: Government will allow eight-storey development
Planning
Heights for former Jerma Palace Hotel redevelopment limited to 32m above sea, rising 9m over St Thomas Tower with allowacen for some 160 apartments
Xgħajra council makes U-turn on 15-storey high-rise
Planning
The Xgħajra local council is giving its blessing to a massive 15-storey high rise after having first objected to the development