Canada / AFP General Motors announced plans to hire 1,000 engineers and software developers at its Canadian research facilities near Toronto over the coming years to design new self-driving cars. “With this expansion, GM Canada will play an important role in our evolution toward vehicles that are connected, autonomous, shared and electric,” Mark Reuss, GM executive vice president of …

  Bloomberg Puerto Rico lawmakers may vote as soon as Monday on a bill intended to help the island’s main water utility avoid a July 1 bond default by selling new debt with stronger repayment pledges. A conference committee approved the measure, said Rep. Rafael ‘Tatito’ Hernandez, sponsor of the legislation and chair of the House Treasury Committee. It would …

  Agua Clara / AFP Panama has sent a giant, Neopanamax-class cargo ship through its canal to test expansion work costing billions of dollars and whose official opening is to be marked with a ceremony late this month. “The tests are going very, very well. We’re pleased,” Giuseppe Quarta, head of the Grupos Unidos por el Canal (GUPC) consortium behind …