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
Curia objects to apartments next to Manikata chapel
Planning
The Curia is objecting to the erection of 18 apartments, 20 garages and an office which would dwarf the old Chapel of St Joseph in the hamlet of Manikata
Azzopardi Fisheries wants to double its tuna cages
National
One of Malta's largest tuna ranching operations wants to double the amount of cages to 24 but insists the pens will contain the same amount of fish harvested in 2017