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
125-room hotel proposed on Hunters Tower site in Marsaxlokk
National
Hotel application refers to draft development brief issued in 2014 which paves way for hotel owned by former Labour MP
St George’s Bay high rise plans weigh heavily on unique cave’s stability
National
Protected cave, known as Ghar Harq il-Hammiem, is partly located beneath Moynihan House which is part of the Villa Rosa development