Guardian Me­dia wish­es to clear the air on an ar­ti­cle post­ed to­day with a link to our web­site. We are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the ori­gin of this post which was not au­tho­rised and sin­cere­ly apol­o­gise at this time for any em­bar­rass­ment to the Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Fitzger­ald Hinds.

The Min­is­ter re­mains on the job.

The fol­low­ing is a state­ment by the Min­is­ter: "We had a sol­id Cab­i­net en­gage­ment to­day, treat­ing as al­ways, with the se­ri­ous busi­ness of the na­tion’s af­fairs. As al­ways, I ad­mired the vi­sion­ary and strong lead­er­ship of our Prime Min­is­ter; as well as the ideas and pro­pos­als of my col­leagues. There­after, I pro­ceed­ed to the Head Of­fice of the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, where I sit. Here do­ing my work as al­ways! No time to lose, es­pe­cial­ly with the hap­py ru­mour-mon­ger­ing, that we seem to so en­joy."