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
Times building to make way for 50 apartments
Planning
The project includes five basement garage levels and a cafeteria, and promises to be the first major residential development in Valletta in some time
Population growth in Malta is thwarting 10% renewable energy target by 2020
Energy
Malta will not reach 2020 target for renewable energy consumption as higher buildings throw shade on solar energy efforts