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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

Labour councillor appointed on MEPA tribunal

National

The Tribunal, a quasi-judicial body, has a final say on appeals presented against decisions taken by the planning authority boards.

New law would allow development applications on someone else’s land

Environment

If approved as it is, the new planning law resurrects the prospect of people applying for development on other people’s property without seeking their consent.