Based on material collected during the Bonaire Estafette Expeditie a critical overview of the Carabidae fauna of the Caribbean island of Bonaire is presented. For this, 350 specimens were studied which were found to belong to 30 species. In addition, some older material preserved in the collection of Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Leiden) was studied, resulting in four additional species. Currently the faunal list of the island enumerates 34 species, of which 31 are reported here for the first time. Eleven of these could not be identified to species level and another eight are referred to a species with some doubt. It is likely that at least some of these refer to undescribed species.