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
Dolmen Hotel set to get lido with two kiosks on promenade
Planning
Local plan rules out development of new kiosks on Bugibba promenade, but case officer recommends approval because the project envisages an extension of the promenade and removal...
Company presents plans to develop Mellieħa green lung
Planning
Land had been leased to private developers in a tender issued by the Lands Authority in February