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
Mistra appeal: Over €5,500 collected in just a week, another €2,000 to reach target
Planning
'We are fighting for the community. People put all their savings and take loans to buy their property. Then somebody without any interest in the town just comes along and...
[WATCH] PN proposes fund for planning appeals, one stop shop for resident complaints
National
The Nationalist Party's environmental proposals include a revision of the Environment Impact Assessment procedures to take cumulative impact of small scale developments...