Jennifer Jones-Kernahan
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26 October 1953
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]
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