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
St George’s Bay project should be redesigned, says heritage watchdog
Planning
Superintendence for Cultural Heritage says Garnet’s St George’s Bay project should be redesigned to protect Villa Rosa views
Residents object to Zebbug seven-storey home for elderly
Planning
Residents in Ħaż-Żebbuġ are objecting to a seven-storey high home for the elderly, proposed in a residential area facing the countryside and just 35m away from the Tal-Għodor...