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
Proposed demolition of three banks sparks architectural debate
Planning
Heritage activists consider bank branches designed by Richard England in the 1970s as architectural landmarks but England himself declared that he has no problem with demolition...
What are construction machines doing in the middle of Mizieb?
Planning
Works happening right now in the middle of pristine agricultural land near the Mizieb woodland has spurred the concern of Mellieha residents