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
10-storey hotel to replace Msida old people’s home
Planning
A new planning application has been presented to transform the Marina Palace elderly home fronting sixth form bus stop into a 10-storey high four-star hotel
Gozo’s red shift: Can Borg turn the tide?
Election 2026
Once firmly Nationalist, Gozo has become steadily redder over the past decade. Can the PN’s new Gozitan leader reverse the ‘great decline’ and turn the island...