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
Fireworks factories can pose threat to water galleries
National
Fireworks factories applications near water galleries and in Areas of High Landscape Value to be decided on a “case by case” basis under new policy
MEPA set to give go ahead to six storeys above naval clinic
National
A decision on the project, which proposes an extra six floors and a penthouse level, built on the existing naval clinic façade and two levels of car park under the...
Number of swimming pools up by 100%
National
MEPA to allow higher buildings on street corners
National
St Julian’s… capital of crime?
Court & Police
New members for two MEPA boards
National
[ANALYSIS] Pressure on Muscat: from Anglu to Manuel
National
Paradise Bay owners apply to regularise illegalities
National
Budget: Between prejudice and supplements
Opinions
[ANALYSIS] A double dose of reason
National
New 13-storey tower proposed in Mriehel
National
Gozo accounts for only 2.5% of domestic violence cases
National
Obituary | Lino Spiteri, his own man
National
MEPA set to ‘dismiss’ permit for Black Gold’s extended pavement