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
Lorry Sant’s home could make way for six villas
Planning
The wife of former Labour works minister has requested a planning permit to demolish her Marsaskala seafront villa in order to make way for a six semi-detached villas 
Failed Mosta shooting range bidders want quarry for film facilities
Planning
The film company ACT Europe, that recently had set it's eyes on a shooting range development near Mosta was recently served with an enforcement order from the Planning...