Possible Clues:

• Pointed remarks about a party island
• Robs a bad independent island
• Drinking establishment is shoddy and so backward in 12 across, for example
• Public house is not great - so, give it back to the islanders
• Island nation northeast of Venezuela
• Absorb ad about the West Indian island
• Wild boars covering poor country
• Caribbean state
• Wounding comment on notice over small island
• Easternmost of the Lesser Antilles