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
330-space car park planned beneath Bormla school playground
Planning
A proposal to build a six-level underground car park with 334 spaces beneath an existing car park and school playground at Triq it-8 ta’ Dicembru, Bormla
PA rejects ODZ crematorium in Gudja
Court & Police
Policy approved in 2024 allows cremation facilities in the ODZ, but requires clearance from Environment Health Directorate which was not forthcoming in this case