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
‘Shabby’ Paceville ambience overshadowed by Maltese Dubai
National
Anthropologist finds St Julian’s communal areas lacking while privatisation gobbles up public space
When ODZ is not ODZ: How a new planning policy will change the Maltese countryside
Environment
Which new buildings can be developed under the new policy promoting rural development? Find out in JAMES DEBONO’s concise planning manual for farmers and rural developers
Government hit by daily fines for pre-1994 illegalities
Malta airport expansion needs wider roads
National
Hugo Chetcuti’s Paceville empire set to rise higher
National
Surge in support for spring hunting ban • MaltaToday Survey
Data & Surveys
Airport expansion set to change Gudja landscape
National
MEPA board unanimously rejects Sliema beach concessions
National
[ANALYSIS] Hunters: From kingmakers to toxic liability?
National
Odious hunters and their right to protest
Opinions
‘Pick and choose the best policy’
National
New policy defines all  pre-1978 buildings as legal
National
Gozo ministry preparing planning application for runway
National
Children to be protected from exorcists, Rihanna and junk food