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
Sliema garden earmarked for 16-storey hotel
Planning
Two three-star hotels are being earmarked for a disused Sliema garden area on the Zimmermann Barbaro alleyway just off Bisazza Street
Ramblers raise alarm over Baħrija gate and rubble wall
Planning
A company whose ownership has yet to be established is requesting planning sanctioning of an illegal gate it erected to block access to Balta tal-Melħ, in Baħrija