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
Planning Amnesty: Failed applicants to get refund but risk enforcement
National
PA evasive on why cut off date for regularising illegalities was changed from January 2013, when scheme was first announced in 2015, to March 2016 in present law
Glasshouses, solar panels proposed alongside petrol pump on Rabat fields
National
5,320 square metres of fields at Ta’ Buqana, Rabat, are set to be covered by greenhouses and solar panels, proposed by florists Romano Cassar Ltd