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
Heritage watchdog clears scaled-down development near historic Dingli chapel
Planning
The Superintendence of Cultural Heritage has issued its clearance for an apartment block in close proximity to a medieval chapel in Dingli
Empire Cinema set to be replaced by 12-storey hotel and supermarket
Planning
Plans to replace the Empire Cinema Complex with a 12-storey hotel featuring cinema halls, a supermarket, and a rooftop pool set for approval