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
‘Mutilation’ of Mrabat stately home set for approval
Planning
A stately home in Sliema is one step nearer to get an additional storey right on top, and a six-storey block of apartments on its grounds after the Planning Directorate...
New local plans likely after general election
Planning
No date for new local plans to tweak development boundaries, fuelling speculation they will only come in place after the next general electio