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
Boutique hotel in Qormi could consume nearly half of historic garden
Planning
The PA has already approved an outline permit setting parameters for the hotel development with the blessing of the Superintendence for Cultural Heritage
Malta’s EEZ still to be declared as Freedom Flotilla attack sparks security concerns
National
The Maltese government has yet to issue a legal notice identifying the extent of the EEZ with government sources saying a decision is expected once the locations of renewable...