Everything about Geraint Jennings totally explained
Geraint Jennings is a
Jersey politician and linguist.
Biography
Geraint Jennings was born in
Saint Helier in
1966. He was educated at
Victoria College Preparatory and
Christ's Hospital. He graduated from
University College, Oxford with a Master of Arts (Oxon) in Modern Languages. Further studies include a Licenciate Diploma in TESOL from Trinity College, London. He is fluent in
Russian. His interests include art and illustration.
He is a teacher of
Jèrriais and strongly active in the
Société Jersiaise, which is a group dedicated to maintaining Jersey's language, history and culture.
Geraint created
Les Pages Jèrriaises, and currently maintains them. He is the resident
Jèrriais reporter for the
Jersey Evening Post and
Parish Matters.
In 2007, he won first place "for the best short story in Norman" at the Fête Nouormande in Bricquebec for his story entitled "La frontchièthe".
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Politics
Jennings became politically active as a member of the
Jersey Green Party though this organisation is no longer in existence and he now operates as an independent.
Parish Municipality
At a local level, he's enjoyed electoral success having been successfully elected to the
Municipality of the
Parish of
St Helier originally in 1996 as member of the
Roads Committee (re-elected 1999, 2002, 2005).
In his role as an elected member of the
Municipality of
St Helier has masterminded the Parish cycling strategy.
National Elections
Though never elected to the national government, the
States of Jersey, he stood for election as Deputy in a by-election in 1992 in
Trinity.
He stood as
Senator in
1993 on a Green Party ticket with
Stuart Syvret and received 2,793 votes, then stood unsuccessfully for election to
Deputy in St Helier District 3&4 (Stuart Syvret's vacant seat following the Senatorial election) in November 1993, and again in November 1996 achieving 568 votes.
He stood in a Senatorial by-election in February 1999 achieving 440 votes. In 2002 he stood in the Senatorial election, gaining 4,667 votes, and then in the 2002 Deputorial in St Helier District 3&4 he gained 486 votes.
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