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
Seven-storey home for elderly to rise over Ħaż-Żebbuġ
Planning
Photomontages for a proposed seven-storey home for the elderly in a residential area at Ħaż-Żebbuġ just 35m off the Grade 1 scheduled Tal-Għodor windmill, show the impact of...
Lands Authority must decide whether to overrule Gzira lido deed
Planning
Aqualuna lido land granted by parliamentary resolution needs no-objection from Lands Authority as to whether it can ignore condition that rooftop is left unecumbered