Jennifer Jones-Kernahan
The Honourable Jennifer Jones | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Senate | |
| In office 20 February 2001 – 1 March 2010 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jennifer Jones 26 October 1953 |
| Party | United National Congress (UNC) |
| Spouse | Malcolm "Jai" Kernahan |
| Relatives | Altheia Jones-LeCointe, Beverly Jones (sisters) |
Jennifer Jones-Kernahan (née Jones; born 26 October 1953) is a Trinidad and Tobago politician and diplomat.[1] She has been a senator, government minister and ambassador.[2]
Early life
Jennifer Jones was born in Belmont, Port of Spain, to Viola, a dressmaker, and Dunstan, a school principal. She had an older sister, Altheia (born in 1945), a younger sister, Beverly (born in 1955) and a younger brother, Phillip. Her sister Altheia won and Island Scholarship and left Trinidad to study biochemistry in the United Kingdom in 1965,[3]: 283–285 where she went on to lead the British Black Panthers.[3]: 287 Viola emigrated to the United States in the late 1960s in search of work,[3]: 283–285 leaving her younger children in the care of their grandmother.[3]: 293
Career
In the 1970s she was involved in the National Union of Freedom Fighters and her sister Beverly was killed by police.[4][3]: 297
Jones-Kernahan was appointed a government senator by the United National Congress (UNC) in 2001 and served as minister of food production and marine resources from June 2001-December 2001. She was reappointed as an opposition senator in October 2002, and again in December 2007, and served as high commissioner to Cuba from November 2010-October 2015.[5]
In the 2007 Trinidad and Tobago general election she was the UNC candidate in La Horquetta/Talparo. In 2008, she was appointed shadow minister of Social and Community Development, Agriculture, Marine Affairs and Land, Gender and Consumer Affairs.[6]
Personal life
She is married to Malcolm "Jai" Kernahan.[2][7] She is the mother of four children.[8] Activist and physician Altheia Jones-LeCointe is her older sister.[3]: 280
References
- ^ "Jennifer Jones-Kernahan". Parliament of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
- ^ a b Souza, Janelle De (2021-01-17). "Pension worries for former MP, ambassador". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. Retrieved 2025-05-21.
- ^ a b c d e f Johnson, W. Chris (2015). "Guerrilla Ganja Gun Girls: Policing Black Revolutionaries from Notting Hill to Laventille". In Miescher, Stephan F.; Mitchell, Michele; Shibusawa, Naoko (eds.). Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 280–306. ISBN 978-1-1190-5218-0. OCLC 905419566.
- ^ Blankson, Perry (2023-02-26). "Remembering Trinidad and Tobago's Black Power Revolution". Tribune. Retrieved 2025-05-21.
- ^ Souza, Janelle De (2021-01-24). "Former senator Jones-Kernahan doesn't qualify for pension, says House Clerk". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. Retrieved 2025-05-21.
- ^ Seelal, Nalinee (2008-01-07). "UNC A picks shadow Cabinet". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday Archives. Retrieved 2025-05-21.
- ^ Gioannetti, Andrew (2024-07-17). "MSJ leader: Crime in Trinidad and Tobago 'past stage of alarming'". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. Retrieved 2025-05-21.
- ^ Newsday (2007-10-23). "La Horquetta/Talparo". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday Archives. Retrieved 2025-05-21.