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
Holidaying in Birkirkara: hotel proposed opposite Santa Liena parish church
Planning
Hotel proposal envisages restoration of palazzo but also a new four storey building on part of its garden overlooking Triq Mike Pulis across the street from the parish church
St Augustine College rector: ‘We will be buried’
Planning
St Augustine College rector objects to nine-storey Pietà development that will replace elderly home