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
Balluta owner wants more, appeals PA refusal to turn building into offices
Planning
PA deviated from policy to allow offices but now gets cold feet as owner requests even more office space and appeals PA’s refusal
Bulldozed: Knights-era ‘replica’ on Qormi mall irks watchdog
Planning
A Knights-era farmhouse opposite the Maltapost headquarters in Qormi has been demolished instead of being carefully dismantled and reconstructed as specified in permit conditions...