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
Illegal deer farm wants agritourism permit on unspoilt Dwejra farmland
Planning
The owner of land beneath the Dwejra fortification lines in Mgarr wants to regularise an illegal deer farm he built by creating an agritourism farm
Wied Ghomor 27-storey hotel too high, Planning Authority design panel warns
Planning
A proposed 27-story hotel overlooking Wied Ghomor in St Julian’s, by the Mikiel Anton Vassalli bridge has been shot down by the Planning Authority’s advisory panel on...