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
Hotel instead of Hunters Tower in Marsaxlokk gets green light
Planning
The first planning permit for the construction of a hotel adjacent to the Il-Magħluq marshland in Marsaxlokk is approved
Famed Lapsi restaurant could become 11-room guest house
Planning
The Ta’ Rita restaurant in Għar Lapsi seeks to transform into an 11-room guest house and restaurant, complete with swimming pool