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
PA approves Labour councillor’s old people’s home in the ODZ
Planning
Three storey high old people’s home proposed instead of one storey high disused broiler farm located in a rural area between Naxxar and Ħal Għargħur despite a policy...
Three new floors could be approved on Paceville’s listed townhouses
Planning
A proposal to add three floors to a row of nine listed Grade 2 townhouses in Paceville which date back to the 1930s is being favourably recommended by both the case officer and...