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
Manoel Island pivot: How public pressure rewrote Malta’s development playbook
National
MaltaToday looks back at the Manoel Island saga to discover how an impossible dream became a reality 
Expired Kalkara valley development permit resurrected
Planning
A development permit that expired in 2023 after the developer failed to start works has been revived by a legal notice extending the validity of thousands of older planning permits