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
New MEPA director had been censured on Lidl approval
National
Sylvio Farrugia appointed deputy director at MEPA, had been censured for recommending approval of Lidl supermarket within airport runway’s public safety zone
€4.3 million expropriation deal reached on eve of election
National
Nationalist administration brokered €4.3 million land swap with Fekruna Bay restaurateur to be able to remove environmental eyesore just days before Malta went to polls