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
Nine-storey block proposed instead of Pietà BOV branch
Planning
Developer Michael Bugeja declared owning the entire site that houses the Bank of Valletta branch, which is now earmarked for another residential project
Montekristo zoo denies claim it attracts wild birds near airport
Planning
The Civil Aviation Directorate warned that the illegal zoo could attract wild birds and pose a risk to airport safety, but the project architect insists the family park actually...