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
Naxxar hotel in St Lucy neighbourhood could gobble up garden and open space
Planning
The development of a five-storey block will be on open space adjacent to the villa’s garden along Triq Hal Dghej
Lower Verdala redevelopment to include 85 new apartments
Planning
The new development will consist of a 5-star hotel with 40 guestrooms and 17 serviced apartments, as well as a private residential complex