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
Fekruna Bay to be reclaimed for the public
National
After years of denied access and protests by residents and environmentalists, the area around the demolished Fekruna restaurant in St Paul’s Bay will be reclaimed as a public...
Complaints to Ombudsman decrease after election
National
Complaints referred to the ombudsman declined drastically after the general election, the ‘Ombusdsplan’ presented by parliamentary ombudsman Joseph Said Pullicino reveals.
Sliema council objects to Qui-Si-Sana development
National
Study re-exhumes ignored MIDI permit condition
National
‘Agritourism’ could be ploy for new buildings outside development zones
Cash for citizenship
Opinions
Closing down slaughterhouse not an option – Galdes
National
Government seeking EU compromise on gbejniet
National
MEPA reversal over anonymous changes to local plans, a victory for transparency
No strategy for MEPA to address 2,065 pending enforcements
Too chummy with Labour? | Tony Zahra
Interview
Transport museum proposed in Birkirkara garden
National
Vaclav Havel faces posthumous MEPA trial
National
[ANALYSIS] Three bids for Labour’s promise
National