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EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL Case No. 17/2018 BART VAN THIENEN (Claimant) vs GVC SERVICES LIMITED (Respondent) Witness Statement Bart Van Thienen, 1st June 2019. 1. I came to live in Gibraltar in the beginning of 2010 after having lived eight years in Torremolinos on the Costa del Sol. Before that I had lived my entire life in Belgium. For about seven years I had worked for local tour operators Blands Travel, Queens Travel and Calypso Tours in Gibraltar, initially as a tour guide only. I found out that there was a lot more work and money to be earned as a minibus/coach driver. I got training and passed all tests to get the coach driving licence, licences D and D1. I also got the “white licence” to be able to work with PSV vehicles in Gibraltar. This involved vetting by the Police and two reference letters from educated people proving that I was of good character. All that cost me about £750 but I had figured out that I would earn that money back in a few weeks on a freelance contract. After many years I started to get bored by doing the same rock tour three or four times a day, tell people not to touch the monkeys as they bite, etc. It had just become too repetitive and there were no career opportunities at all. I remember that I thought: “Is this really what I want to do for the next twenty years?” 2. At the end of the tourist season I decided to go on some type of sabbatical for a few months to think about what I really wanted to do with my life and what possibilities were available in Gibraltar for me. During this sabbatical I did a lot of voluntary work as I was not the kind of guy to sit at home all day and do nothing. One project was the restoration of six huge eighteenth century mooring anchors. I also continued to remove invasive plants from the Gibraltar Nature Reserve, mostly in the Europa Point area, a voluntary project I had started four years earlier. The costs of these projects were covered by the Ministry of Heritage and Department of Environment and Climate Change. I received a Gibraltar Heritage Trust award in 2014 and I became the first non-British person in history to get this award. I also received the Independent Civil Society Award in 2017 for my voluntary work. This award came with a plaque with the text: “In recognition of single-handed determination and dedication to Gibraltar’s environment, biodiversity and heritage. We applaud and thank Bart for his hard and selfless work, undertaken oftentimes alone and |
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