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
American University still located on proposed national park
National
The local plan approved in 2006 designates the area as “national parks primarily for informal recreation (e.g. walking, cycling) and the appreciation of the...
Checkmate at Zonqor
National
Where does the partial Zonqor U-turn leave Joseph Muscat and the environmental movement, ask JAMES DEBONO and MATTHEW VELLA
Labour councillor appointed on MEPA tribunal
National
New law would allow development applications on someone else’s land
No need of EIA for ODZ warehouses
National
MEPA set to approve store in Bingemma fort
National
[WATCH] Mellieha farmers fear fireworks ‘time-bomb’
If you are a pump attendant: Don’t smoke
Health
Zonqor: a victory for civil society
Opinions
Government exempts health projects from planning system
MEPA executive chairman at government’s mercy
National
Doctors get requests for euthanasia, study finds
National
MEPA approves 16-storey tower in Gzira
National
Planning law: Government accepting anonymous submissions on MEPA reform