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
MEPA set to ban high buildings at Ta’ Masrija
National
MEPA issues public consultation with the aim of revising an existing policy on high building towering over a ridge in Mellieha.
Delimara: residents should be compensated for eyesore
National
Heavier industrial presence makes stronger case of rehabilitation of open spaces in Delimara, report says.