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
Simon Busuttil’s stupid sliding tackle
Opinions
James Debono
Busuttil is wrong to question the government’s decision to bring in migrants from Syria. Malta was in no position to bicker with Italy while people where drowning in the sea.
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...
‘Agritourism’ could be ploy for new buildings outside development zones
Study re-exhumes ignored MIDI permit condition
National
Sliema council objects to Qui-Si-Sana development
National
Complaints to Ombudsman decrease after election
National
Cash for citizenship
Opinions
Government seeking EU compromise on gbejniet
National
Closing down slaughterhouse not an option – Galdes
National
No strategy for MEPA to address 2,065 pending enforcements
MEPA reversal over anonymous changes to local plans, a victory for transparency
Armed Forces exempted from planning rules
National
[ANALYSIS] Three bids for Labour’s promise
National
Vaclav Havel faces posthumous MEPA trial
National