A new per­ma­nent sec­re­tary was ex­pect­ed to be post­ed to the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­istry yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing the shift of that min­istry’s act­ing per­ma­nent sec­re­tary to the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter and a probe of for­mer Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds’ re­cent vis­it to the min­istry.

Of­fi­cial sources con­firmed this yes­ter­day, shifts of per­ma­nent sec­re­taries are so far known to have af­fect­ed a hand­ful of min­istries and sev­er­al PSs.

Last week, Guardian Me­dia re­port­ed that the PS in the Trade In­vest­ment and Tourism Min­istry, Ran­dall Karim, was switched with the PS from the For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­istry. The deputy PS in For­eign Af­fairs was al­so trans­ferred.