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
Clash of the Titans: Polidano blames Portelli for Psaila Street demolition mayhem
National
After Portelli blamed Polidano for not following architect’s method statement, Polidano Brothers issues statement saying that they were simply following the instructions of...
Green patch in Valley Road targeted for five-storey block
Planning
Development on 50m stretch of Valley Road could compromise watercourse and lush vegetation, one of the last vestiges of former Msida valley