The month’s crime report makes for sobering reading as a spate of shootings, stabbings and robberies reminds us all that violence is still very much a part of our lives.

A shooting on Happy Valley Road nine days into the New Year leaves residents “traumatised and frightened” and sends a 37-year-old man to the intensive care unit of the hospital.

On January 22, a 20-year-old motorcyclist is shot by a gunman on a bike as he turns from North Shore Road, Pembroke on to Overview Hill at approximately 11.30am. The man is later flown off the island for medical treatment. Two suspects flee the scene at high speed on a motorcycle.

Shortly after 7pm on the same day, a man is chased up Court Street by two men and fired upon near the junction with Angle Street. No one is harmed.

Police believe the two shootings on the same day are gang-related.

Meanwhile, a 24-year-old Devonshire woman suffers stab wounds to the face in an attack in the Cedar Park neighbourhood, a 21-year-old St George’s man is stabbed in his own home, RoseAnn Edwards, the City of Hamilton councillor, is hospitalised after being stabbed at her Angle Street residence, and an 18-year-old Pembroke woman requires hospital treatment after two women are said to have set upon her at a residence on Curving Avenue.

Armed robberies are prevalent, too, with a hold-up taking place at RUBiS gas station in Flatts, and an attempted robbery at Empire Grocery on North Shore Road, Devonshire. A masked thief also slips through the back door of KFC on Queen Street, Hamilton, and makes off with cash.

Meanwhile, a 49-year-old man is robbed on Brunswick Street, Hamilton, a taxi driver is robbed at knife-point on South Road, Southampton, and a 65-year-old man is forced to the ground and robbed near his home in the area of North Hill, Pembroke.

A 50-year-old man pleads guilty and is sentenced to three years in prison for the attempted robbery at Empire Grocery.

January 1: Shikiyla Hendrickson and Reginald Baker welcome a son, Skyler, as Bermuda’s first baby of 2016. He weighs in at 7lb, 1.3oz.

January 4: Bermuda Hospitals Board reveals that 13 patients have been involved in “adverse events” over the last five years, including five who died. The information is released after a PATI request by The Royal Gazette.

January 5: Khrystian King, an American of Bermudian descent, is sworn in as the first black elected official in his hometown of Worcester, Massachusetts, in 80 years.

January 7: Cyril Whitter, a local businessman, quits two Progressive Labour Party committees, telling Maynard Dill, the party chairman, that “the leadership of my beloved party stinks”.

January 8: After years of dialogue, Government and the Bermuda Industrial Union agree on a bus timetable that, it is claimed, will see service improved and overtime for drivers reduced.

January 10: The Royal Bermuda Regiment begins the organisation’s first all-volunteer recruit camp.

January 11: National Geographic Traveler magazine names Bermuda as one of 20 must-see places in 2016.

January 12: The Court of Appeal overturns the conviction of Stacey Robinson, found guilty last year of involvement in the shooting of Lionel Thomas Jr.

January 12: Mexico Infrastructure Finance LLC says it will begin selling off Corporation of Hamilton properties if it does not receive the $18 million owed to it under a loan guarantee related to the Par-la-Ville hotel project.

January 12: Marc Bean, the Opposition leader, calls for a revamp of good governance legislation.

January 13: Animal advocacy group Punish the Deed renews its call for a dog amnesty after helping to arrange for the export of two seized dogs from Bermuda. The Ministry of Health allows such exports when it is “logistically and financially viable”.

January 14: Some groceries have doubled in price in less than a decade, reports Government’s Digest of Statistics.

January 15: Last January’s mass walkout and march on the Cabinet Office by unionised workers over the issue of continued furlough days in the public sector is branded “unlawful” by Chief Justice Ian Kawaley, but he refuses to grant the permanent injunction against such walkouts that is sought by Government.

January 15: Business owners in the Mill Creek area react favourably to news that Government is to clean the canal that has contributed to flooding problems and will also make infrastructure repairs.

January 16: Minister of Health, Seniors and the Environment, Jeanne Atherden, presents a five-year plan for reforming Bermuda’s health care.

January 16: Popular Hamilton café Dorothy’s closes after 40 years.

January 19: Fierce weather buffets the Spirit of Bermuda at Murray’s Anchorage, injuring crewman Tremayne Bean, tearing the ship’s sail and knocking out its engine. The pilot boat St George and the tugboat Faithful are dispatched and the sloop is towed to Dockyard where the tender Dragon brings it alongside.

January 21: A’Lona Lambert-Simons, believed to be Bermuda’s oldest resident, celebrates her 105th birthday with family and friends at Matilda Smith Williams seniors’ home.

January 21: Tawana Tannock is appointed chair of the Human Rights Commission.

January 21: Researchers discover a strain of salmonella in Bermuda’s drinking water system, and officials provide advice on how to avoid becoming ill.

January 22: Pit Bulls of “appropriate temperament” could be dropped from Government’s list of banned pets according to a proposal now under review.

January 24: The historic Queen of the East building is torn down, disappointing campaigners who fought for years to save it. A six-storey residential building is to be built on the East Broadway site.

January 26: A 41-year-old Smith’s Parish man is arrested on suspicion of theft in relation to the missing $18 million related to the Par-la-Ville hotel development deal.

January 27: The Ministry of Public Works identifies 30 Government-owned properties that it will seek to sell.

January 28: Winter storm Jonas disrupts the island’s shipping schedule, leaving supermarket shelves empty of some perishable foods.

January 28: Bermudian gangs are posting hip-hop “diss” tracks online to taunt and intimidate one another.

January 29: Total visitor arrivals for the third quarter of 2015 increase by some 10,000 people year-on-year.

January 30: A letter cover featuring a rare Bermuda stamp dating back more than 150 years is sold at a London auction house for just less than $20,000.

January 30: Bermuda Police Service has cut its annual overtime expenditure from $8 million to $3.2 million since 2009.