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
Smart City road link will displace 5,000 cubic metres of soil
Planning
A new road linking Bieb is-Sultan in Żabbar to Smart City will displace 5,000 cubic metres of soil, requiring farmland to be expropriated. The soil will be re-used in nearby...
Libyan school in Ta’ Giorni applies for mosque and apartment block
Planning
Mosque will include a turret and will be located next to a proposed apartment block and the existing school