A Bahamian sloop at anchor in blue water, watercolour by Winslow Homer, 1899

Project Daylight

Every Caribbean citizen can find the laws that govern them, understand them, and have a say in them.

Join Project DaylightHow it works

Sloop, Nassau · Winslow Homer, 1899 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art (10.228.3)

We are building a digital map of every law and rule that governs the region. Join us to build democracy for all.

44.4 million

people live in the Caribbean.1

7,500+

national Acts across the Caribbean.2

That is too much for one person to read. Daylight helps you find the parts that apply to you, in words you understand.

Sources +
  1. 1United Nations World Population Prospects, Caribbean, 2024.Worldometer
  2. 2A minimum estimate by CAIA, October 2026. We counted 2,887 principal Acts on the official law websites of 7 countries and territories. For the 19 others that make their own laws, we assume each has at least 246, the fewest we counted, which gives 7,561. Guadeloupe, Martinique and the Caribbean Netherlands are left out because they mostly follow French or Dutch law. Counted: Trinidad and Tobago 533 (revised to 2016), Grenada 504, Guyana 461 (2022 revision), Antigua and Barbuda 455, Dominica 358 (1990 revision), Anguilla 330 in force (2022 revision), Turks and Caicos 246 (2021 revision).laws.gov.ttlaws.gov.gdmola.gov.gylaws.gov.agdominica.gov.dmlaws.gov.aigov.tc

Everyone should have access to information, and be able to use it.

Two women standing together at a market in Haiti
Haiti. Photo: Heather Suggitt, Unsplash
An older man smiling on a beach in Barbados
Barbados. Photo: David Cain, Unsplash
Shoppers at a street market near Falmouth, Jamaica
Falmouth, Jamaica. Photo: JR Harris, Unsplash
A woman in a wide, colourful sun hat
Trinidad and Tobago. Photo: Renaldo Matamoro, Unsplash

What Project Daylight does

  1. 01

    Find the law and understand it.

    Ask a question in your own words. Get a plain answer with a link to the law it comes from. Tell your government what is not working.

  2. 02

    Get it explained in a way that suits you.

    The same law can be explained for a child, a student, a grandparent or a lawyer. In your language, or read aloud.

How it works

You ask. People check. AI helps.

How the parts fit together

Four parts, stacked like floors. You are on the top floor. Each floor below does work for the one above.

Questions and reportsChecked answers

  1. 01 · You ask

    Citizens

    You ask a question, or tell us what you need.

  2. 02 · People check

    Reviewers

    Real people check the answers and fix mistakes.

  3. 03 · AI helps

    AI helpers

    They find the law and read it for you.

  4. 04 · The brain

    Daylight model

    It sorts each question and knows when it is not sure.

A 3D diagram of four stacked layers. Citizens at the top, reviewers on Lighthouse below them, AI agents below that, and the Daylight open model at the bottom. Questions flow down, checked answers flow up. Governments sit to the side: they receive reports of what citizens need and publish the laws the model explains.

How the Daylight model answers a question

Illustrative examples. The figures show how a decision works, not test results.

Question: My landlord kept my deposit when I moved out. What can I do? Answers: Landlord and tenant law 86%, Consumer protection 9%, Small claims court 5%. The top answer clears the 80% confidence bar, so an AI agent explains it with the source.

  1. 1

    It picks from a list

    It can only choose from real answers, so it cannot make one up.

  2. 2

    It is fast

    It looks at every answer at once.

  3. 3

    It says how sure it is

    Like saying “I am 9 out of 10 sure.”

  4. 4

    If it is not sure, it asks a person

    A real person answers instead.

Where we start

Every Caribbean government, one map

579 government websites in 30 countries and territories. Tap a country to see them.

Pick a country

Tap the map or a name to see that government's websites.

Want to know more?

Tap a card

Three older musicians playing guitar on a street in Havana
Havana, Cuba. Photo: Ban Yido, Unsplash
Masqueraders in orange and purple costumes at Carnival in Chaguanas
Chaguanas Carnival, Trinidad. Photo: Anton Acosta, Unsplash
Dancers in blue and red dresses performing outdoors in Labadee, Haiti
Labadee, Haiti. Photo: Katherine Bandin, Unsplash

Join

Help build it. It is free to join.

Join Project Daylight

We need students, professionals, academics and high school students from every Caribbean country.

What you get

  • Access to Lighthouse, our real-time collaboration platform
  • Access to our research and data
  • Your name on a real AI project, for your CV
  • Hands-on experience building AI
  • A network across the Caribbean
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