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
PA set to refuse Qrendi apartment block instead of old farmhouse
Planning
The Planning Authority is set to reject an oversized development consisting of 46 residential units and 56 garages, instead of an old farmhouse in Qrendi
ERA demands landscaping plan for Montekristo but no impact study
Planning
Malta’s environmental watchdog has ruled out a full environmental assessment for the controversial Montekristo Estate, despite its history of unpermitted construction and...