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
Sliema’s naval clinic earmarked for eight-storey complex
National
Latest planning application foresees restoration of the existing façade
Planning policy on hotel heights already being tweaked
National
Government appoints committees to draft nine MEPA policies
The opposition we need
Opinions
Poacher or gamekeeper? | Sandro Chetcuti
Interview
1,807 enforcement reports in 2012
National
Developers and architects dominate new board
National
Petrol station proposed for Maghtab
National
Developers propose demolition of Villa Rosa wall
National
MEPA’s data protection excuse shot down by commissioner
Chinese investment riddles
National
Apartments, car park and supermarket proposed in St Julian’s
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Environment Protection still headless at MEPA
National
Minister at a bus stop | Joe Mizzi
Interview