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
Guesthouse approval in St Julian’s Għomor valley still ‘objectionable’ – ERA
Planning
The Environment and Resources Authority has warned against the approval of a guesthouse to replace two new dwellings outside the development zones in Wied Għomor
Blue Lagoon pier threatens iconic landscape, culture watchdog warns
Planning
While SCH objects to visual impact on iconic landscape, Birdlife calls for carrying capacity studies to determine number of visitors