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
St George’s Bay tent structure returns after tribunal’s concession
Planning
Appeals tribunal overturns PA’s refusal for permanent glass structure that blocked bay’s vista by allowing retractable tent for restaurant
2021 sees lowest approval of ODZ dwellings in five years
Planning
In 2021 the Planning Authority approved 107 new dwellings outside development zones, the lowest number since 2016