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
Malta’s underwater Maghtab has 5 million tonnes of construction waste
Environment
Waste dumped at sea decreased drastically in last years, but impact still being studied according to a report submitted to Brussels in March
Heritage watchdog puts stop to relocation of M’xlokk tower
Planning
The Superintendence for Cultural Heritage has shot down a proposal by the tourism ministry to dismantle a historical tower so as to accommodate a new road in Marsaxlokk