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
Five-fold increase in traffic in Kalkara after Smart City completion
Planning
The proposed Shoreline development will contribute to an increase of 1,350 new car trips along Triq il-Missjoni Taljana, over and above what has been approved at Smart City in 2009
60% of Pembroke, Swieqi and St Julian’s residents against DB project
Planning
Only 30.7% of residents in the three localities of Pembroke, Swieqi and St Julian’s agree with the high-rise development proposed on the ITS site