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
2015, the year of the green awakening: Zonqor, American University, and Front Harsien ODZ
National
Civil society emerged as a force to be reckoned with as thousands took to the streets to protest the take up of ODZ land in Zonqor. But will this be enough to counter the lure of...
Qrendi: Permit granted after three refusals
National
A fine for an enforcement carried out by MEPA in 2010 when “truckloads” of construction waste were removed from the site was still unpaid when MEPA issued the permit...