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
Fewer EIAs, more screenings: ERA’s new approach under scrutiny
National
The ERA says that by ‘screening’ planning applications, it nips problems in the bud at the inception of a project to guide developers toward more environmentally...
Ħondoq: developers want gate and rubble walls around 28,000sq.m site
Planning
Scicluna Enterprises proposes reconstruction of pre-1978 rubble walls and gate on huge site in Ħondoq where ‘tool room’ was approved