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
Over a hundred farmers eligible for new agritourism development
Environment
The new policy effectively enables owners who are not farmers themselves to reap profits from land, which they had bought cheaply in the past due to its ODZ status.
New MEPA deputy director embroiled in Mistra scandal
National
Deputy director who ran Major Projects Unit had endorsed 2008 case officer reports recommending Mistra permits