Geraint Jennings (born 13 May 1966) is a

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, UK member of Municipality of St Helier and

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Biography

Jennings was born in

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, Jersey. He was educated at Victoria College Preparatory and

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. He graduated from

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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 the Procureur du Bien Public for the parish of St Helier.

Jèrriais

He is a teacher of

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and strongly active in the Société Jersiaise, which is a group dedicated to maintaining Jersey's language, history and culture. He created Les Pages Jèrriaises, and currently maintains them. He is the resident

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". He won first place again in 2008 for his story entitled "Feu et feunmée". He has worked on the translation of Lewis Carroll's story

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, which was published in 2012, as ''L'Travèrs Du Mitheux Et Chein Qu'Alice Y Dêmuchit''.

Politics

Jennings became politically active as a member of the Jersey Green Party. After it disbanded he acted as an

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Parish municipality

He was elected to the Municipality of the Parish of

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in 1996 as a member of the Roads Committee and was re-elected in 1999, 2002 and 2005. In his role he masterminded the parish cycling strategy.

Candidacy for Jersey elections

Jennings has stood for election in the

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on seven occasions, but not elected:

References

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