### Clue: Wounding comment on notice over small island (8)
### Answer: BARBADOS 
 ### Explanation: Definition: island
 BARB(a wounding comment/a deliberately hurtful remark) **placed above**(on, in a down clue) AD(abbrev. for "advertisement"/a promotional notice) + O(abbrev. for "over" in cricket scores) + S(abbrev. for "small").
Defn: … in the Caribbean.