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
Majority against any development on Natura 2000 sites
Environment
The Europe-wide survey on biodiversity, conducted by Eurobarometer, shows that the Maltese are keener on prohibiting development on protected sites than the European average
Enemalta’s ‘olive trees’ for illegal substation
National
MEPA’s natural heritage advisory panel (NHAP) contends that regularisation is “unacceptable especially when the applicant is a parastatal organisation, which should...
Brussels flags bio-security risks in poultry farms
National
41 North Koreans toiling at Leisure Clothing
National
MEPA application for Coast Road petrol station is on transport ministry’s land
Castille’s new lights approved in just one day
National
Lunzjata chapel to be turned into roundabout
National
Aleppo saved in 2009 now gets MEPA death sentence
National
Al fresco dining: Sliema council wants enforcement
National
Bilom group applies for ODZ petrol station
Business News
[ANALYSIS] Joseph Muscat has a 10-year plan...
National
HSBC not excluding new Mriehel tower
National
MEPA’s magic wand turns pile of rubble into two-storey building
No environment impact assessment for Ramla Bay Hotel extension