Possible Clues:

• Critical remark leading to trouble on southern island
• Dig first and then pop back to the country
• Accept just good rating perhaps for holiday destination
• Pointed remarks brought about trouble for the island
• Island fish -- fuss to get caught
• Most eastern of the Caribbean islands
• Island that's really dreary to the west, graduate inhabiting it
• The island on which cricketer Garfield Sobers was born
• Blocks providing coverage of ghastly Love Island
• Caribbean island that became a republic in 2021