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
Church commission opposes residential development in Ħal Ferħ
Planning
Allowing residential development to take place at Ħal Ferħ shows a lack of commitment towards better and more intelligent planning, Church’s environment commission says
High-rise on the hill: Ta’ Giorni 14-storey tower seeks permit
Planning
The owners of the former Palms wedding halls are seeking a three-tower permit for their Ta’ Giorni hillside site to build 165 apartments in the St Julian’s neighbourhod