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
No decision yet on 8,000sq.m to be added to Tigné Point ‘jigsaw’
Planning
No committal yet from Midi plc on additional floorspace it has gained from Manoel Island to its 138,000sq.m at Tigné Point
Almost 500 requests to extend building zones could change Gozo’s idyllic vistas
Planning
The 497 submissions in Gozo to the Planning Authority are seeking permission to extend the development zones on parcels of land kept outside the boundaries