Vanished Without Trace

Our mainsail hydraulic furling motor was tracked well in transit until it got into the Caribbean. It was scanned out of Barbuda but had not been scanned in on arrival; the first break in the chain. At least we know it left the Barbuda area about a week ago but has since then vanished. We have been here for just long enough not to be surprised. The probability of anyone following some kind of process on these islands is very low. The next question is can anyone be bothered to find unrecorded shipments?

And a number of college books made it as far as Panama where they were declared too damaged to forward ship. We are witing to see where the replacements end up.