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
Murder middleman Melvin Theuma’s bid to turn menagerie into Safi villa set to be rejected
National
An attempt by Melvin Theuma to transform an agriculture store into a dwelling has hit a snag
Over 2,400 trees uprooted since 2018
Environment
ERA issued permits for uprooting together with compensation obligations for over 12,000 new trees