Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary in the Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism Min­istry, Ran­dall Karim, has switched places with the PS in the For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­istry.

In ad­di­tion, the deputy PS in the For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­istry has been shift­ed to the Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­istry.

This was con­firmed yes­ter­day by min­istry of­fi­cials.

How­ev­er, there’s no word from the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment on if there has been a reshuf­fle of per­ma­nent sec­re­taries and whether more changes will be made.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar didn’t re­spond to calls for com­ment on the changes.

Head of the Pub­lic Ser­vice and Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, Natasha Bar­row, al­so did not re­ply to ques­tions about the changes.

Gov­ern­ment sources couldn’t say whether all per­ma­nent sec­re­taries are be­ing changed around or on­ly some due to the new fo­cus and align­ment of cer­tain min­istries.

To­day’s post-Cab­i­net brief­ing is ex­pect­ed to deal with a range of mat­ters to con­tin­ue out­lin­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s “poli­cies, pro­grammes and plans,” sources said.