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
Floriana’s traditional community is being ‘squeezed out’, local council warns
Planning
The Floriana council is strongly objecting to hotel developments, warning that the conversion of residential properties into tourist accommodation is threatening the town’s...
After MaltaToday report, tree near St John’s Co-Cathedral could be transplanted to Hastings Gardens
National
Saint John Cathedral Foundation proposes moving one of the historic Ficus trees near St John’s Co-Cathedral to Hastings Gardens in Valletta, instead of a car park in...