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
Gaffarena’s Żebbuġ ‘sheep farm’ set for refusal
Planning
The Planning Authority’s Development Management Directorate has recommended the refusal of an outline application seeking to sanction existing structures and convert them...
PA set to sanction Polidano’s illegal works in Balzan
Planning
The permit would regularise works related to two permits revoked by the EPRT and the law courts as well as additional works undertaken without any authorisation