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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...