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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

App to guide countryside walks still in the pipeline

National

In its electoral manifesto the Labour Party had pledged the creation of a ‘mobile phone app’ to guide ramblers walking along public countryside trails

Tribunal revokes refusal of ODZ fuel station in Tal-Balal

Planning

The Environment and Planning Review Tribunal has revoked a decision taken by the Planning Authority eight years ago to refuse a petrol station in Iklin