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
Portelli group seeks five-storey permit on Mqabba farmland
Planning
​A company partly owned by Gozitan construction mogul Joseph Portelli is seeking the green light for a five-story, 43 apartment development on Mqabba farmland that was formerly...
Build now, sanction later: Owner applies to sanction illegal works at il-Bidni
Planning
The Planning Authority is monitoring a stretch of terraced fields in the outskirts of Marsaskala and Zabbar after the owners continued with the illegal construction of rubble walls