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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

Tuna pens off Sikka l-Bajda to stay in same location

National

The government has given up on finding an alternative location further away from the Mellieha and St Paul’s Bay coast for two tuna pen establishments

PA starts reform of building heights policy with vague objectives

Planning

Objective of reform is to ‘clarify’ a policy approved in 2015 which converted building heights in number of floors into a height in metres but no indication is given...