The U.S. Food and Drug Ad­min­is­tra­tion has ap­proved a gener­ic ver­sion of the world’s on­ly twice-a-year shot to pre­vent HIV — a big step to­ward mak­ing the drug avail­able in­ex­pen­sive­ly and more quick­ly in 120 low- and mid­dle-in­come coun­tries.

A ma­jor cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty af­fect­ing soft­ware used by a large pro­por­tion of the world’s web­sites has high­light­ed how busi­ness­es can re­main ex­posed to threats they may not even know ex­ist, ac­cord­ing to Dr Ronald Wal­cott, man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Pre­ci­sion Cy­ber Tech­nolo­gies and Dig­i­tal So­lu­tions Ltd (PCDS).

ST JOHN’S – Naavya Shar­ma snared four wick­ets, and skip­per Thomas Rew blast­ed an un­beat­en half-cen­tu­ry to lead Eng­land Li­ons to a lop­sided eight-wick­et win over West In­dies ‘A’ in the open­ing T20 in An­tigua on Sun­day (No­vem­ber 1).

Af­ter putting her own ed­u­ca­tion on hold to raise a fam­i­ly, Car­lette Giusep­pi-Pereira re­turned to uni­ver­si­ty in her 40s, bal­anc­ing moth­er­hood, teach­ing and stud­ies to earn a de­gree in lin­guis­tics at UWI St Au­gus­tine.

In San­skrit, the term pan­dit de­notes one who is versed in Vedic scrip­tures, prac­tices and rit­u­als, knowl­edge­able in Hin­du law, mu­sic and phi­los­o­phy and per­forms the du­ties of a schol­ar, teacher and ad­vi­sor. The orig­i­nal us­age of the word “pan­dit” refers to a Brah­min and it is syn­ony­mous with the term “Puro­hit.”